Isaiah 1:15 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Basil of Caesarea

COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 1:36 (379)

Let those who do nothing right in life and think they are justified by the length of their prayer listen to these words. For the words of the prayer are not useful by themselves but only when they are offered up with earnest intent. Now the Pharisee also seemed to multiply his supplication. But what does the Scripture say? "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus to himself," not to God, for he turned back toward himself, since at all events he was in the sin of arrogance.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He hides his eyes from their prayers, as that which he has an aversion to and is angry at. All this is to show, [1.] That sin is very hateful to God, so hateful that it makes even men's prayers and their religious services hateful to him. [2.] That dissembled piety is double iniquity.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Ye spread forth your hands - This is an expression denoting the act of supplication. When we ask for help, we naturally stretch out our hands, as if to receive it. The expression therefore is equivalent to ‘when ye pray, or implore mercy.’ Compare Exo 9:29; Exo 17:11-12; 1Ki 8:22. I will hide mine eyes ... - That is, I will not attend to, or regard your supplications. The Chaldee Paraphrase is, ‘When your priests expand their hands to pray for you.’ Your hands ... - This is given as a reason why he would not hear.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבְפָרִשְׂכֶ֣ם	u.ve.fa.ris.Khem	and when spread out you	H6566 →
כַּפֵּיכֶ֗ם	ka.pei.Khem	hands your	H3709 →
אַעְלִ֤ים	'a'.Lim	I will hide	H5956 →
עֵינַי֙	'ei.Nai	eyes my	H5869 →
מִכֶּ֔ם	mi.Kem	from you
גַּ֛ם	gam	also	H1571 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
תַרְבּ֥וּ	tar.Bu	you will multiply	H7235 →
תְפִלָּ֖ה	te.fi.Lah	prayer	H8605 →
אֵינֶ֣נִּי	'ei.Ne.ni	not I	H369 →
שֹׁמֵ֑עַ	sho.Me.a'	[will be] hearing	H8085 →
יְדֵיכֶ֖ם	ye.dei.Khem	hands your	H3027 →
דָּמִ֥ים	da.Mim	blood<s>	H1818 →
מָלֵֽאוּ׃	ma.Le.'u	they are full	H4390 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
leads to
- Micah 3:4
  Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Zechariah 7:13
  And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
- James 4:3
  And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
- Matthew 25:10–12
  But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
Through
Zechariah 7:13
And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
leads to
- Jeremiah 11:11
  Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 1:24–28
  Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
- Jeremiah 14:12
  Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and…
Through
Micah 3:4
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
leads to
- Proverbs 1:28
  Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.