Isaiah 1:15
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15 When you stretch out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.(A)
Micah 3:4
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4 Then they will cry to the Lord,
but he will not answer them;
he will hide his face from them at that time
because they have acted wickedly.(A)
Isaiah 59:2-3
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2 Rather, your iniquities have been barriers
between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
so that he does not hear.(A)
3 For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.(B)
Proverbs 1:28
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28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.(A)
Zechariah 7:13
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13 Just as, when I[a] called, they would not hear, so, when they called, I would not hear, says the Lord of hosts,(A)
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Jeremiah 7:8-10
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8 Here you are, trusting in deceptive words to no avail.(A) 9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known(B) 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, “We are safe!”—only to go on doing all these abominations?(C)
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Luke 13:25-28
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25 Once the owner of the house has got up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then in reply he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’(A) 26 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers!’(B) 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrown out.(C)
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Jeremiah 14:12
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12 Although they fast, I do not hear their cry, and although they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I do not accept them, but by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence I consume them.(A)
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Psalm 66:18
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18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.(A)
1 Kings 8:22
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Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication
22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands to heaven.(A)
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Micah 3:9-11
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9 Hear this, you rulers of the house of Jacob
and chiefs of the house of Israel,
who abhor justice
and pervert all equity,(A)
10 who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with wrong!(B)
11 Its rulers give judgment for a bribe;
its priests teach for a price;
its prophets give oracles for money;
yet they lean upon the Lord and say,
“Surely the Lord is with us!
No harm shall come upon us.”(C)
Isaiah 58:7
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7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them
and not to hide yourself from your own kin?(A)
Psalm 55:1
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Psalm 55
Complaint about a Friend’s Treachery
To the leader: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
1 Give ear to my prayer, O God;
do not hide yourself from my supplication.(A)
Job 27:20
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20 Terrors overtake them like a flood;
in the night a whirlwind carries them off.(A)
1 Kings 8:54
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Solomon Blesses the Assembly
54 Now when Solomon finished offering all this prayer and this plea to the Lord, he arose from facing the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven;
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Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.[a](A)
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Matthew 6:7
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7 “When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.(A)
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Ezekiel 8:17-18
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17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O mortal? Is it not bad enough that the house of Judah commits the abominations done here? Must they fill the land with violence and provoke my anger still further? See, they are putting the branch to their nose!(A) 18 Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”(B)
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Job 27:8-9
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8 For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off,
when God takes away their lives?(A)
9 Will God hear their cry
when trouble comes upon them?(B)
1 Timothy 2:8
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8 I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument,
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Isaiah 8:17
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17 I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.(A)
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Psalm 134:2
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2 Lift up your hands to the holy place,
and bless the Lord.(A)
Ezra 9:5
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Ezra’s Prayer
5 At the evening sacrifice I got up from my fasting, with my garments and my mantle torn, and fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the Lord my God,(A)
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