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Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,

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Judges 10:14
Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”

2 Kings 3:13
Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.” The king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”

Ezekiel 14:3
“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face then comes to the prophet, I Yahweh will answer him there according to the multitude of his idols,

Ezekiel 20:31
When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!

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Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

Song of Solomon 3:2
I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

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Proverbs 11:27
He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

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Isaiah 16:12
It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

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Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

Job 35:13
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Psalms 66:19
But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Isaiah 26:16
Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Isaiah 58:9
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Lamentations 3:44
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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2 Chronicles 36:16
but they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Psalms 81:10
I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

Isaiah 30:15
For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

Isaiah 50:2
Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.

Isaiah 59:1
Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

Jeremiah 6:17
I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’

Jeremiah 7:13
Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;

Jeremiah 7:25
Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.

Jeremiah 26:5
to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them—but you have not listened—

Jeremiah 32:33
They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

Jeremiah 35:14
“The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment; but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking, and you have not listened to me.

Hosea 11:2
They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

Matthew 22:3
and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

Romans 10:21
But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

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Hosea 11:7
My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

Luke 15:28
But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.

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Psalms 32:6
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Isaiah 49:8
Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

Lamentations 2:9
Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

Matthew 25:10
While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

Luke 19:42
saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

Luke 19:43
For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

Luke 19:44
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

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Proverbs 5:13
I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.

John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Acts 13:41
‘Behold, you scoffers! Wonder and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Romans 2:21
You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2 Thessalonians 2:11
Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,

2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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Romans 9:31
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

Romans 9:32
Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

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