When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 1:15 · WEBRead the whole chapter →
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From this verse, the Word reaches
In parallel withAmos 5:23-24
Two prophets, one verdict on worship without justice: God will not hear, and will not listen to the music.
“Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The same threadIsaiah 1:16-17
The command that follows the indictment: cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek justice, relieve the oppressed.
“Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.””
That reaches back to this verse
In parallel with (this verse)Mark 7:6-7
Lip service and bloody hands: both prophets say God refuses worship that hides injustice.
“He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”