Bible Verses About Wicked: Prayer of

`And ye turn back and weep before Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not hearkened to your voice, nor hath he given ear unto you;

`And Jehovah sheweth himself wroth with me, for your sake, and hath not hearkened unto me, and Jehovah saith unto me, Enough for thee; add not to speak unto Me any more about this thing:

They look, and there is no saviour; Unto Jehovah, and He hath not answered them.

His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?

There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.

They cry, and there is no saviour, On Jehovah, and He doth not answer them.

Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.

Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Far is Jehovah from the wicked, And the prayer of the righteous He heareth.

Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination, Much more when in wickedness he bringeth it.

Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I am Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.

But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you--from hearing.

Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am bringing in unto them evil, That they are not able to go out from, And they have cried unto Me, And I do not hearken unto them.

When they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.

And Jehovah saith unto me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My soul is not toward this people, Send from before My face, and they go out.

As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'