Bible Verses About Wicked: Prayer of

And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.

But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.

They looked, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.

Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with ill intent!

Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.

Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”

Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”