Isaiah 1:15
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15 When you (A)spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
(B)even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
(C)your hands are full of blood.
Micah 3:4
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4 (A)Then they will cry to the Lord,
but he will not answer them;
(B)he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.
Isaiah 59:2-3
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2 (A)but your iniquities have made a separation
between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
so that he does not hear.
3 (B)For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.
Proverbs 1:28
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28 (A)Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
1 Kings 8:22
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Solomon's Prayer of Dedication
22 Then Solomon (A)stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and (B)spread out his hands toward heaven,
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Zechariah 7:13
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13 (A)“As I[a] called, and they would not hear, (B)so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts,
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- Zechariah 7:13 Hebrew he
Jeremiah 14:12
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12 Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, (A)and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them (B)by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
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Jeremiah 7:8-10
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8 “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. 9 (A)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, (B)swear falsely, (C)make offerings to Baal, (D)and go after other gods that you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, (E)which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?
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Isaiah 58:7
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7 Is it not (A)to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
(B)and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Psalm 66:18
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Psalm 55:1
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Cast Your Burden on the Lord
To the choirmaster: with (A)stringed instruments. A Maskil[a] of David.
55 (B)Give ear to my prayer, O God,
and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!
Footnotes
- Psalm 55:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Job 27:20
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1 Timothy 2:8
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8 I desire then that (A)in every place the men should pray, (B)lifting (C)holy hands without anger or quarreling;
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Luke 13:25-28
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25 (A)When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, (B)‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, (C)‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, (D)‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I tell you, (E)I do not know where you come from. (F)Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ 28 (G)In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see (H)Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but (I)you yourselves cast out.
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Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe (A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you (B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you (C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[a]
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- Matthew 23:13 Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation
Matthew 6:7
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7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as (A)the Gentiles do, for (B)they think that they will be heard (C)for their many words.
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Micah 3:9-11
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9 (A)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
(B)who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
10 (C)who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 (D)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
(E)its priests teach for a price;
(F)its prophets practice divination for money;
(G)yet they lean on the Lord and (H)say,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
(I)No disaster shall come upon us.”
Ezekiel 8:17-18
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17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O (A)son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit (B)the abominations that they commit here, that (C)they should fill the land with violence and (D)provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their[a] nose. 18 Therefore (E)I will act in wrath. (F)My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. (G)And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
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- Ezekiel 8:17 Or my
Isaiah 8:17
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17 I will (A)wait for the Lord, who is (B)hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
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Psalm 134:2
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Job 27:8-9
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8 (A)For what is the hope of the godless (B)when God cuts him off,
when God takes away his life?
9 (C)Will God hear his cry
when distress comes upon him?
Ezra 9:5
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5 And at the (A)evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment (B)and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees (C)and spread out my hands to the Lord my God,
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1 Kings 8:54
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Solomon's Benediction
54 (A)Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had (B)knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.
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