For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

For your hands are defiled with blood The prophet proceeds here more particularly to specify the sins of which they were guilty; …

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Your hands are defiled with blood. —The accusation of the “grand indictment” of Isaiah 1:15 is reproduced verbatim.

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

For your hands. He now brings forward their actions, so that they may not practice evasion or question which sins have “caused the separat…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
iniquity

From a genera…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not accomplished for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but be…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century
  1. Behold, the hand of the Lord is not shortened. Here the prophet presents the preparation for receiving salvation on the part of …

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