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Micah 3:4
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time because of the crimes they have committed.
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Isaiah 59:2-3
But your iniquities are separating you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not listen.For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers, with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongues mutter injustice.
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Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will search for me, but won’t find me.
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1 Kings 8 22
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire congregation of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.
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Zechariah 7:13
Just as he had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen, says the LORD of Armies.
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Job 27:20
Terrors overtake him like a flood; a storm wind sweeps him away at night.
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Jeremiah 14:12
If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague.”
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to ignore your own flesh and blood?
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1 Kings 8 54
When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up from kneeling before the altar of the LORD, with his hands spread out toward heaven,
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Jeremiah 7:8-10
But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.“‘ Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?Then do you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say,“ We are rescued, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts”?
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Psalms 55:1
God, listen to my prayer and do not hide from my plea for help.
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Psalms 66:18
If I had been aware of malice in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
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Psalms 134:2
Lift up your hands in the holy place and bless the LORD!
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Luke 13:25-28
once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying,‘ Lord, open up for us!’ He will answer you,‘ I don’t know you or where you’re from.’Then you will say,‘ We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’But he will say,‘ I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from me, all you evildoers!’There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that place, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown out.
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Ezekiel 8:17-18
And he said to me,“ Do you see this, son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the detestable acts they are doing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and repeatedly anger me, even putting the branch to their nose?Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not show pity or spare them. Though they call loudly in my hearing, 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 or argument.
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Job 27:8-9
For what hope does the godless person have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?Will God hear his cry when distress comes on him?
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Matthew 23:13
“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.
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Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will wait for him.
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Matthew 6:7
When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.
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Ezra 9:5
At the evening offering, I got up from my time of humiliation, with my tunic and robe torn. Then I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God.
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Micah 3:9-11
Listen to this, leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert everything that is right,who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with injustice.Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying,“ Isn’t the LORD among us? No disaster will overtake us.”