Hosea 7:14
And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.
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Hosea 7:14
And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.
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Genesis 27:34
And hearing the words of his father, Esau gave a great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Give a blessing to me, even to me, O my father!
2 Samuel 22:42
They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.
2 Samuel 22:43
Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.
Job 35:12
There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.
Psalms 18:41
They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.
Psalms 66:18
I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
Proverbs 1:28
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
Isaiah 59:2
But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
Ezekiel 8:18
For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
Zechariah 7:13
And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:
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Genesis 32:26
And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.
Deuteronomy 4:29
But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.
Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:
2 Chronicles 6:37
And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, turning again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;
Psalms 24:6
This is the generation of those whose hearts are turned to you, even to your face, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)
Isaiah 65:24
And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
Jeremiah 29:12
And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.
Jeremiah 29:13
And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.
Hosea 6:1
Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.
Matthew 6:6
But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Luke 18:1
And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
Ephesians 3:20
Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,
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Exodus 33:4
Hearing this bad news the people were full of grief, and no one put on his ornaments.
Numbers 14:1
Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.
Numbers 14:39
And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.
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Numbers 21:7
Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.
Judges 3:8
So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.
Judges 3:9
And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges 3:12
Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.
Judges 3:13
And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.
Judges 3:14
And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.
Judges 3:15
Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.
Judges 4:3
Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.
Judges 10:7
And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
Judges 10:11
And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the Philistines
Judges 10:12
And the Zidonians and Amalek and Midian crushing you down, and in answer to your cry did I not give you salvation from their hands?
Isaiah 26:6
It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.
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Judges 10:13
But, for all this, you have given me up and have been servants to other gods: so I will be your saviour no longer.
Judges 10:14
Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.
Judges 10:15
And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We are sinners; do to us whatever seems good to you: only give us salvation this day.
Judges 10:16
So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.
Isaiah 19:20
And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free.
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1 Samuel 8:7
And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
Psalms 57:7
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs, and give praise.
Isaiah 1:2
Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
Isaiah 1:5
Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
Isaiah 59:13
We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.
Jeremiah 2:30
I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
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2 Kings 10:16
And he said, Come with me and see how I am on fire for the Lord's cause. So he made him go with him in his carriage.
2 Kings 10:29
But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do; the gold oxen were still in Beth-el and in Dan.
Isaiah 48:1
Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.
Isaiah 48:2
For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
Jeremiah 7:4
Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Jeremiah 12:2
They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.
Micah 3:11
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.
Matthew 25:11
After that the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, let us in.
Ephesians 6:6
Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;
Titus 1:16
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
1 John 2:4
The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
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1 Chronicles 10:13
So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,
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1 Chronicles 10:14
And not to the Lord: for this reason, he put him to death and gave the kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.
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2 Chronicles 6:38
If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:
2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:13
And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
Psalms 50:15
Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
Psalms 77:1
To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm. I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
Psalms 77:2
In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.
Psalms 91:15
When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
Psalms 119:2
Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.
Psalms 119:10
I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
Psalms 119:58
I have given my mind to do your pleasure with all my heart; have mercy on me, as you have said.
Psalms 119:145
KOPH I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.
Psalms 145:18
The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.
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2 Chronicles 34:33
Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 35:1
And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.
2 Chronicles 35:2
And he gave the priests their places, making them strong for the work of the house of God.
2 Chronicles 35:3
And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel,
2 Chronicles 35:4
And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son;
2 Chronicles 35:5
And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites.
2 Chronicles 35:6
And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.
2 Chronicles 35:7
And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.
2 Chronicles 35:8
And his captains freely gave an offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:9
And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:10
So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.
2 Chronicles 35:11
And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.
2 Chronicles 35:12
And they took away the burned offerings, so that they might give them to be offered to the Lord for the divisions of the families of the people, as it is recorded in the book of Moses. And they did the same with the oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:13
And the Passover lamb was cooked over the fire, as it says in the law; and the holy offerings were cooked in pots and basins and vessels, and taken quickly to all the people.
2 Chronicles 35:14
And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.
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2 Chronicles 35:15
And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.
2 Chronicles 35:16
So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.
2 Chronicles 35:17
And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.
2 Chronicles 35:18
No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
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Job 5:8
But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:
Job 22:22
Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
Job 22:23
If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;
Job 22:24
And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;
Job 22:25
Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;
Job 22:26
For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.
Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
Hosea 8:3
Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
Matthew 20:21
And he said to her, What is your desire? She says to him, Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.
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Job 15:4
Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
Jeremiah 16:6
Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:
Amos 6:10
And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.
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Psalms 42:1
To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah. Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.
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Psalms 42:2
My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?
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Psalms 51:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
Psalms 51:3
For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
Psalms 86:1
A Prayer. Of David. Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.
Psalms 86:2
Keep my soul, for I am true to you; O my God, give salvation to your servant, whose hope is in you.
Psalms 86:3
Have mercy on me, O Lord; for my cry goes up to you all the day.
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Psalms 79:6
Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name.
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Job 3:24
In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
Psalms 6:8
Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.
Psalms 22:1
To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David. My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
Psalms 38:9
Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.
Psalms 43:4
Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
Psalms 79:11
Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;
Lamentations 3:8
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
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Psalms 107:39
And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,
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Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.
Proverbs 28:9
As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.
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Isaiah 26:17
As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.
Jeremiah 4:31
A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.
Jeremiah 6:24
The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
Jeremiah 30:5
This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.
Jeremiah 30:6
Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?
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Isaiah 28:1
Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!
Isaiah 28:7
And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.
Amos 2:6
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;
Amos 9:13
See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.
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Isaiah 31:1
Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;
Hosea 7:11
And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.
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Isaiah 50:1
This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
Isaiah 50:2
Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.
Isaiah 57:3
But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.
Isaiah 59:1
Truly, the Lord's hand has not become short, so that he is unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:
Isaiah 59:16
And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave salvation, and he made righteousness his support.
Jeremiah 2:24
An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.
Jeremiah 3:5
Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.
Jeremiah 3:8
And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?
Jeremiah 31:32
Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:15
But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.
Ezekiel 16:32
The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
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Isaiah 57:7
You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.
Isaiah 57:8
And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it
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Exodus 32:6
So early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure.
Judges 9:27
And they went out into their fields and got in the fruit of their vines, and when the grapes had been crushed, they made a holy feast and went into the house of their god, and over their food and drink they were cursing Abimelech.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
Isaiah 5:11
Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!
Isaiah 22:13
But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
Isaiah 52:5
Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
Isaiah 65:14
My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.
Amos 2:7
Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
Amos 6:6
Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.
Malachi 3:18
Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.
Romans 16:18
For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.
Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
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Jeremiah 3:21
A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.
Jeremiah 50:5
They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever.
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Jeremiah 10:25
Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.
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Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,
Romans 8:27
And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.
Revelation 3:3
Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.
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Lamentations 2:12
They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.
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Isaiah 1:16
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
Lamentations 2:18
Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.
Lamentations 3:41
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
Hosea 10:2
Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.
Hosea 14:1
O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.
Hosea 14:2
Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.
Matthew 6:8
So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.
Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
1 John 3:22
And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
Revelation 3:19
To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.
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Hosea 2:5
For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.
Hosea 2:8
For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.
Hosea 2:9
So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.
Hosea 2:12
And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.
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Amos 5:4
For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:
Amos 5:5
Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.
Amos 5:6
Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.
Amos 5:7
You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;
Amos 5:8
Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
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Amos 5:21
Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.
Amos 5:22
Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.
Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.
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1 Kings 18:26
So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.
Isaiah 44:17
And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.
Isaiah 44:18
They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.
Isaiah 44:19
And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?
Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
Isaiah 45:20
Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.
Jeremiah 2:28
But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.
Jonah 1:5
Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.
Jonah 1:6
And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.
Jonah 1:14
So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.
Jonah 1:16
Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.
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Zechariah 7:3
And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
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Matthew 20:22
But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?
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Mark 10:21
And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.
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Mark 10:22
But his face became sad at the saying, and he went away sorrowing: for he was one who had much property.
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Acts 5:3
But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Acts 8:23
For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.
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Job 42:6
For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
Psalms 4:6
There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
Psalms 10:4
The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Psalms 17:1
A Prayer. Of David. Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.
Psalms 55:17
In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
Psalms 119:80
Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.
Lamentations 3:56
My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
Ezekiel 20:43
And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.
John 4:24
God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.
Hebrews 10:22
Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
1 John 3:20
When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.
1 John 3:21
My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;
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Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:
Isaiah 5:12
And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
Isaiah 5:22
Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.
Isaiah 56:12
Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.
Joel 1:15
Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.
Luke 16:19
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
Acts 2:13
But others, making sport of them, said, They are full of new wine.
Acts 2:15
For these men are not overcome with wine, as it seems to you, for it is only the third hour of the day;
Ephesians 5:6
Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.
James 5:1
Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
2 Peter 2:14
Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
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