Isaiah 1:15-17

                 

 Isaiah 1:15-17

15  When you spread out your hands 

      in prayer,

      I hide my eyes from you;

      even when you offer many prayers,

      I am not listening.

      Your hands are full of blood!

16  Wash and make yourselves clean.

      Take your evil deeds out of my sight;

      stop doing wrong.

17  Learn to do right; seek justice.

      Defend the oppressed.

      Take up the cause of the fatherless;

      plead the case of the widow.