Bible Verses About Prayerlessness

"Why, you are abolishing fear of God and hindering prayer to him!

"Yet to God they said, 'Leave us alone! We don't want to know about your ways.

What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?'

Will he take delight in Shaddai and always call on God?

Don't they ever learn, all those evildoers, who eat up my people as if eating bread and never call on ADONAI?

Won't these evildoers ever learn? They devour my people as if they were eating bread, and they never call on God!

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, on the kingdoms that don't call out your name;

But you haven't called on me, Ya'akov; because you have grown weary of me, Isra'el.

No one calls on your name or bestirs himself to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and caused our misdeeds to destroy us.

The shepherds have become stupid, they have not consulted ADONAI. This is why they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, also on the families that do not call on your name. For they have consumed Ya'akov - consumed him and finished him off, and laid waste to his home.

As written in the Torah of Moshe, this whole disaster came upon us. Yet we did not appease ADONAI our God by renouncing our wrongdoing and discerning your truth.

They are all as hot as an oven, and they devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; not one of them calls out to me.

The ship's captain found him and said to him, "What do you mean by sleeping? Get up! Call on your god! Maybe the god will remember us, and we won't die."

those who turned away from following ADONAI, and those who haven't sought ADONAI or consulted him at all."