Job 11:14

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

They looked, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.

You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.