Isaiah 1:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

When you holde out your handes, I wyll turne myne eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, yet I wyll heare nothyng at all, seyng your handes are full of blood.

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  • Isa 59:2-3 : 2 But your misdeedes haue seperated you from your God, and your sinnes hyde his face from you, that he heareth you not. 3 For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with vnrighteousnesse: your lippes speake leasinges, and your tongue setteth out wickednesse.
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Then shall they crye vnto the Lorde, but he wyll not heare them: he wyll euen hide his face from them at that time, because they haue done wickedly in their workes.
  • 1 Kgs 8:22 : 22 Solomon stoode before the aulter of the Lorde in the sight of all the congregation of Israel, and stretched out his handes toward heauen, and sayde:
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then shall they call vpon me, but I wyll not aunswere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:
  • Isa 8:17 : 17 And I wyll wayte vpon the Lorde that hideth his face from the house of Iacob, and I wyll loke for him.
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 To deale thy bread to the hungrie, and to bring the poore wandering home into thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou couer hym, and hide not thy selfe from thy neighbour, and despise not thyne owne fleshe?
  • 1 Kgs 8:54 : 54 And when Solomon had made an ende of praying all this prayer and supplication vnto the Lorde, he arose from before the aulter of the Lorde, & from kneling on his knees, & from stretching of his handes vp to heauen,
  • Ezra 9:5 : 5 And about the euening sacrifice I arose vp from my heauinesse, and rent my clothes and my rayment, and fell vpon my knees, and spread out my handes vnto the Lorde my God,
  • Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what hope hath the hypocrite though he haue great good, if God take away his soule? 9 Will God heare his crye, when trouble commeth vpon him?
  • Job 27:20 : 20 Terrour taketh holde vpon hym as a water fludde, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.
  • Ps 55:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition vpon Neginoth, a wise instruction of Dauid. O Lorde geue eare vnto my prayer: and hide not thy selfe from my petition.
  • Ps 66:18 : 18 If I had inclined vnto wickednes in my heart, the Lorde woulde not haue hearde me:
  • Ps 134:2 : 2 Lyft vp your holy handes: and blesse God.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Heare this I pray you ye heades of the house of Iacob, and princes of the house of Israel: they abhorre iudgement, and peruert all equitie. 10 They builde vp Sion with blood, and Hierusalem with iniquitie. 11 (The heades therof iudge for rewards, and the priestes thereof teache for hyre, and the prophetes thereof prophecie for money: yet wyll they leane vpon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among vs? no euill can come vpon vs.)
  • Zech 7:13 : 13 And thus is it come to passe, that like as he cryed, and they would not heare: euen so they cryed, & I would not heare saith the Lord God of hoastes:
  • Matt 6:7 : 7 But when ye pray, babble not much, as the heathen do. For they thynke it wyl come to passe, that they shalbe heard, for theyr much bablinges sake.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: ye neither go in your selues, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in.
  • Luke 13:25-28 : 25 When the good man of the house is risen vp, and hath shut to the doore, and ye begyn to stande without, & to knocke at the doore, saying, Lorde, Lorde, open vnto vs: and he shall aunswere, and say vnto you, I knowe you not whence ye are. 26 Then shall ye begyn to say: We haue eaten and dronken in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streates. 27 And he shall say, I tell you, I knowe you not, whence ye are: depart from me all ye that worke iniquitie. 28 There shalbe weepyng & gnasshyng of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob, and all the prophetes, in the kyngdome of God, and ye your selues thrust out.
  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 I wyll therefore, that the men praye euerywhere, lyftyng vp holy handes, without wrath and reasonyng.
  • Jer 7:8-9 : 8 But take heede, ye trust in lying tales, that beguile you and do you no good. 9 For when ye haue stollen, murthered, committed adultrie and periurie, when ye haue offered vnto Baal, folowing straunge and vnknowen gods: shall ye be vnpunished? 10 Yet then come ye and stande before me in this house (whiche hath my name geuen vnto it) and say, tushe, we are absolued quite, though we haue done all these abhominations.
  • Jer 14:12 : 12 For though they fast, I wyll not heare their prayers, and though they offer burnt offeringes and sacrifices, yet wyll not I accept them: for I wyll destroy them with the sworde, hunger, and pestilence.
  • Ezek 8:17-18 : 17 And he sayde vnto me, Hast thou seene this thou sonne of man? Thinketh the house of Iuda that it is but a trifle to do these abhominations which they do here? for they haue fylled the lande full of wickednesse, and haue returned to prouoke me to anger, and lo they are puttyng the braunches to their noses. 18 Therfore wyll I also do somethyng in my wrathful displeasure, so that mine eye shall not spare them, neither wyll I haue pitie: yea and though they crye in mine eares with a loude voyce, yet wyll I not heare them.

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