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You came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you.
Deuteronomy Chapter 1: Verse 45
But because of you the LORD was angry with me and would not listen to me. "That is enough," the LORD said. "Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.
Deuteronomy Chapter 3: Verse 26
They cried for help, but there was no one to save them, to the LORD, but he did not answer.
2 Samuel Chapter 22: Verse 42
Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?
Job Chapter 27: Verse 9
He does not answer when men cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
Job Chapter 35: Verses 12 - 13
They cried for help, but there was no one to save them, to the LORD, but he did not answer.
Psalms Chapter 18: Verse 41
If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;
Psalms Chapter 66: Verse 18
But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you-
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
"Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
Proverbs Chapter 1: Verses 24 - 28
The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
Proverbs Chapter 15: Verse 8
The LORD is far from the wicked but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Proverbs Chapter 15: Verse 29
If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.
Proverbs Chapter 21: Verse 13
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable, how much more so when brought with evil intent!
Proverbs Chapter 21: Verse 27
If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law, even his prayers are detestable.
Proverbs Chapter 28: Verse 9
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood;
Isaiah Chapter 1: Verse 15
I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob's descendants, 'Seek me in vain.' I, the LORD, speak the truth; I declare what is right.
Isaiah Chapter 45: Verse 19
But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Isaiah Chapter 59: Verse 2
Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.
Jeremiah Chapter 11: Verse 11
Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague."
Jeremiah Chapter 14: Verse 12
Then the LORD said to me: "Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go!
Jeremiah Chapter 15: Verse 1
Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster."
Jeremiah Chapter 18: Verse 17
Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations Chapter 3: Verse 8
Therefore I will deal with them in anger; I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen to them."
Ezekiel Chapter 8: Verse 18
"Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Have you come to inquire of me? As surely as I live, I will not let you inquire of me, declares the Sovereign LORD.'
Ezekiel Chapter 20: Verse 3
When you offer your gifts,the sacrifice of your sons in the fire,you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will not let you inquire of me.
Ezekiel Chapter 20: Verse 31
When they go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
Hosea Chapter 5: Verse 6
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.
Micah Chapter 3: Verse 4
They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry.
" 'When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,' says the LORD Almighty.
Zechariah Chapter 7: Verses 12 - 13
"Now implore God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?"-says the LORD Almighty.
Malachi Chapter 1: Verse 9
Judah has broken faith. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the LORD loves, by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the LORD cut him off from the tents of Jacob ,even though he brings offerings to the LORD Almighty.
Another thing you do: You flood the LORD's altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands.
Malachi Chapter 2: Verses 11 - 13
We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will.
John Chapter 9: Verse 31
But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord;
James Chapter 1: Verses 6 - 7
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
James Chapter 4: Verse 3
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.Suffering for Doing Good
1 Peter Chapter 3: Verse 7
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