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Isaiah 1:15

What does Isaiah 1:15 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 1:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Context

v.14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.

v.15This passage

v.16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 66:18

    If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear:

  • Job 27:8

    For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

  • Psalms 134:2

    Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.

  • Matthew 6:7

    And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

  • Jeremiah 14:12

    When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

  • Matthew 23:13

    But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.

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