Isaiah 1:15

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full (x) of blood....
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

This connects admirably with Isaiah 1:9 . By a fine transition Isaiah intimates that it is no merit in the rulers which has averted Sodom's fate. Le...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

And when . Even when. spread forth your hands. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for "pray", in which hands are spread forth. ma...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

15. When ye spread forth your hands The ancient custom of spreading forth the hands in prayer did not arise from superstition; nor did th...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 858 THE SERVICE WHICH ALONE IS PLEASING TO GOD Isaiah 1:10-17 . Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. W...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 bloo...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jehovah's Arraignment of His People This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah 1:10-17 ) might refer to almost any period....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Your hands, etc. ] The hands, uplifted in prayer, are stained with blood.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

When ye spread forth your hands. — The words point to the attitude of one who prays, as was the manner of Jews, Greeks, and Romans (“tenditque ad s...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER I THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION Isaiah 1:1-31 -His General Preface THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its posi...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Religion without Righteousness Vain Isaiah 1:10-20 The prophet points out, first the misery that had overtaken the country, Isaiah 1:4-9 ; and...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His burdens of the...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I make no break in this address of the prophet. The whole forms but one sermon, and a most striking one it is. I beg the reader to remark with me the...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when ye spread forth your hands ,.... That is, in prayer, this being a prayer gesture: hence the Targum paraphrases it, "and when the priests s...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When ye spread forth your hands When ye pray with your hands spread abroad, as the manner was; I will hide mine eyes from you I will take no noti...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vanity of Mere Ritual Obedience. B. C. 738....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When ye spread forth your hands; when you pray with hands spread abroad, as the manner was; of which see Exodus 9:29,33 Job 11:13 , &c. I w...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah Outlines The Message He Is Bringing ( Isaiah 1:1-31 ). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls o...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

What God Has Against His People ( Isaiah 1:10-15 ). God's Hatred of Any Outward Religion Which Is Not Matched By Inner Response. In these verses I...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

WORTHLESS HUSKS Isaiah 1:15 . And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This is a chapter which, I think, teaches an important lesson to those of us who desire the salvation of men, for it shows us how God sets about that...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 1:1 . The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, k...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

May we be instructed of the Holy Ghost while we read this inspired Scripture! Isaiah 1:1 . The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw P...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 1:2-3 . Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled a...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 1:1 . The vision. What the prophet saw with the eyes of his mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being chiefly c...
The Biblical Illustrator

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken God finds vindication in nature I well remember two funerals going out of my h...
The Biblical Illustrator

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith the Lord Hypocrisy and partiality in religion These words are not to be und...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART I.— EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH ( CH . 1-35.) SECTION I.— THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT ( Isaiah 1:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Rebuke of Hypocritical Worship
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And when ye spread forth your hands, in a gesture which is a caricature of true prayer, I will hide Mine eyes from you, His eyes, as it were, findi...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Blood — You are guilty of murder, and oppression.

¹⁵ 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.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 1:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 1:15