When you do ask for something, you don’t receive it. That’s because you ask for the wrong reason. You want to spend your money on your sinful pleasures.

你们求也得不着，是因为你们妄求，要浪费在你们的宴乐中。

你们求也得不着，是因为你们妄求，为了要浪费在你们的宴乐中。

你们求也得不着，是因为你们妄求，为了要浪费在你们的宴乐中。

你们求也得不到是因为你们动机不纯，只求享乐和满足自己的欲望。

你们求也得不到，因为你们的动机不良，要把所得的耗费在你们的私欲上。

你们求也不能得到，是因为你们求的动机不对，为了要花费在自己的私欲上。

你們求也得不着，是因為你們妄求，要浪費在你們的宴樂中。

你們求也得不着，是因為你們妄求，為了要浪費在你們的宴樂中。

你們求也得不着，是因為你們妄求，為了要浪費在你們的宴樂中。

你們求也得不到是因為你們動機不純，只求享樂和滿足自己的慾望。

你們求也得不到，因為你們的動機不良，要把所得的耗費在你們的私慾上。

你們求而無所得，因為你們妄求，要浪費在你們的宴樂中。

你們求也不能得到，是因為你們求的動機不對，為了要花費在自己的私慾上。

爾求而不得、以爾妄求、欲用之於爾慾也、

爾求而不得、妄求從欲故也、

爾求而不得、因爾妄求、欲以所求者、縱爾之慾、

求而不得者、以爾求之不以其道、蓋爾所求者、徒為縱情恣慾而已

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong— you want only what will give you pleasure.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request on your pleasures.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume[ it] upon your lusts.

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

And he will give us anything we ask. That’s because we obey his commands. We do what pleases him.

But when you ask, you must believe. You must not doubt. That’s because a person who doubts is like a wave of the sea. The wind blows and tosses them around.They shouldn’t expect to receive anything from the Lord.

Why do you fight and argue among yourselves? Isn’t it because of your sinful desires? They fight within you.

The Lord hates the sacrifice of sinful people. But the prayers of honest people please him.

The time will come when Israel will cry out to the Lord. But he won’t answer them. In fact, he’ll turn his face away from them. They have done what is evil.

If I had enjoyed having sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.But God has surely listened. He has heard my prayer.

“ You don’t know what you’re asking for,” Jesus said.“ Can you drink the cup of suffering I drink? Or can you go through the baptism of suffering I must go through?”

They cried out for help. But there was no one to save them. They called out to the Lord. But he didn’t answer them.

What hope do ungodly people have when their lives are cut short? What hope do they have when God takes away their lives?God won’t listen to their cry when trouble comes on them.They won’t take delight in the Mighty One. They’ll never call out to God.

“ When I called, they did not listen,” says the Lord.“ So when they called, I would not listen.

So I say,‘ I will bring trouble on them. They will not be able to escape it. They will cry out to me. But I will not listen to them.

Even if they go without food, I will not listen to their cry for help. They might sacrifice burnt offerings and grain offerings. But I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with war, hunger and plague.”

Whoever refuses to listen to the cries of poor people will also cry out and not be answered.

“ Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not make any appeal or request for them. They will call out to me when they are in trouble. But I will not listen to them.

You might spread out your hands toward me when you pray. But I do not look at you. You might even offer many prayers. But I am not listening to them. Your hands are covered with the blood of the people you have murdered.So wash and make yourselves clean. Get your evil actions out of my sight! Stop doing what is wrong!

“ Then you will call to me. But I won’t answer. You will look for me. But you won’t find me.

“ You don’t know what you’re asking for,” Jesus said to them.“ Can you drink the cup of suffering I am going to drink?”“ We can,” they answered.

God hates sacrifices that are brought by evil people. He hates it even more when they bring them for the wrong reason.

He doesn’t answer sinful people when they cry out to him. That’s because they are so proud.

“ Not long after that, the younger son packed up all he had. Then he left for a country far away. There he wasted his money on wild living.

Jesus told his disciples another story. He said,“ There was a rich man who had a manager. Some said that the manager was wasting what the rich man owned.So the rich man told him to come in. He asked him,‘ What is this I hear about you? Tell me exactly how you have handled what I own. You can’t be my manager any longer.’

But this son of yours wasted your money with some prostitutes. Now he comes home. And for him you kill the fattest calf!’