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Isaiah 1:15-17
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15 When you stretch out your hands,[a]
    I will turn away my eyes from you.
Even if you pray endlessly,
    I will not listen,
    for your hands are covered with blood.
16 Wash yourselves and become clean;
    remove your evil deeds
    far from my sight.
Cease to do evil
17     and learn to do good.
Pursue justice and rescue the oppressed;
    listen to the plea of the orphan[b]
    and defend the widow.

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  1. Isaiah 1:15 Hands: the habitual manner of praying was to extend the hands with the palms open upwards.
  2. Isaiah 1:17 Orphan, widow: these were the people most defenseless and most exposed to injustice in the social order of the time. This is why they are constantly mentioned in ethical passages of the Bible.
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Isaiah 1:15-17
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15 When you spread out your hands(A) in prayer,
    I hide(B) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
    I am not listening.(C)

Your hands(D) are full of blood!(E)

16 Wash(F) and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;(G)
    stop doing wrong.(H)
17 Learn to do right;(I) seek justice.(J)
    Defend the oppressed.[a](K)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;(L)
    plead the case of the widow.(M)

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  1. Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor
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