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Wicked (People): Prayer of Deuteronomy 1:45

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

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Deuteronomy 3:26

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.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of 2 Samuel 22:42

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

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Job 27:9

Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Job 35:12, 13

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.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Psalm 18:41

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

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Psalm 66:18

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

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Proverbs 1:24–28

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,

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Proverbs 15:8, 29

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.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Proverbs 21:13, 27

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!

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Proverbs 28:9

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

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Isaiah 1:15

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.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Isaiah 45:19

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.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Isaiah 59:2

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.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Jeremiah 11:11

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.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Jeremiah 14:12

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.”

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Jeremiah 15:1

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.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Jeremiah 18:17

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.”

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Lamentations 3:8, 44

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. / You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Ezekiel 20:3, 31

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Have you come to inquire of Me? As surely as I live, I will not be consulted by you, declares the Lord GOD. / When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Hosea 5:6

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Micah 3:4

Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Zechariah 7:12, 13

They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts. / And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Malachi 1:9

“But ask now for God’s favor. Will He be gracious? Since this has come from your hands, will He show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of Malachi 2:11–13

Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god. / As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts. / And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of James 1:6, 7

But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. / That man should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of James 4:3

And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

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Wicked (People): Prayer of 1 Peter 3:7

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

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