Psa 30:7, Isa 1:15 | JFB | STEP | 7. troubled

Psalms 30:7

7. troubled—confounded with fear (Ps 2:5).

Isaiah 1:15

15. (Ps 66:18; Pr 28:9; La 3:43, 44).

spread . . . hands—in prayer (1Ki 8:22). Hebrew, "bloods," for all heinous sins, persecution of God's servants especially (Mt 23:35). It was the vocation of the prophets to dispel the delusion, so contrary to the law itself (De 10:16), that outward ritualism would satisfy God.