15And 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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Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. …
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-15)Here, I. God calls to them (but calls in vain) to hear his word, Isa. 1:10. 1. The title he gives them is very strange; You rulers of Sodom , and people of Gomorrah . This intimates what a righteous thing it would have been with God to make them like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of ruin (Isa. 1:9), because that had made themselves like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of sin. The men of Sodom were w…
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