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Micah 3:4
Then they will cry out to the Lord, But He will not answer them. Instead, He will hide His face from them at that time Because they have practiced evil deeds.
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Isaiah 59:2-3
But your wrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with wrongdoing; Your lips have spoken deceit, Your tongue mutters wickedness.
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Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but will not find me,
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1 Kings 8 22
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and he spread out his hands toward heaven.
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Zechariah 7:13
And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says the Lord of armies;
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Job 27:20
Terrors overtake him like a flood; A storm steals him away in the night.
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Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather, I am going to put an end to them by the sword, famine, and plague.”
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to break your bread with the hungry And bring the homeless poor into the house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
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1 Kings 8 54
When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and plea to the Lord, he stood up from the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.
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Jeremiah 7:8-10
“ Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail.Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer sacrifices to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say,‘ We are saved!’— so that you may do all these abominations?
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Psalms 55:1
Listen to my prayer, God; And do not hide Yourself from my pleading.
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Psalms 66:18
If I regard wickedness in my heart, The Lord will not hear;
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Psalms 134:2
Lift up your hands to the sanctuary And bless the Lord.
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Luke 13:25-28
Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin standing outside and knocking on the door, saying,‘ Lord, open up to us!’ and He then will answer and say to you,‘ I do not know where you are from.’Then you will begin saying,‘ We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets!’And yet He will say,‘ I do not know where you are from; leave Me, all you evildoers.’In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrown out.
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Ezekiel 8:17-18
And He said to me,“ Do you see this, son of man? Is it a trivial thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me to anger repeatedly? Yet behold, they are putting the twig to their nose!Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry out in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”
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1 Timothy 2 8
Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger and dispute.
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Job 27:8-9
For what is the hope of the godless when he makes an end of life, When God requires his life?Will God hear his cry When distress comes upon him?
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Matthew 23:13
“ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the kingdom of heaven in front of people; for you do not enter it yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for the Lord who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will wait eagerly for Him.
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Matthew 6:7
“ And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
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Ezra 9:5
But at the evening offering I stood up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I bowed down on my knees and spread out my hands to the Lord my God;
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Micah 3:9-11
Now hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who despise justice And twist everything that is straight,Who build Zion with bloodshed, And Jerusalem with malice.Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,“ Is the Lord not in our midst? Catastrophe will not come upon us.”