Job 16:18

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

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

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

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.”

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

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.

“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

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.”

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

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

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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.”

Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

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

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

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

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

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.

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.

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.”

“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?

“ ‘ “For her blood is in the middle of her. She set it on the bare rock. She didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

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.

Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

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;

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

“You shall not murder.

You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.

The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

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.

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

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.

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

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

“ ‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

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.

O earth, earth, earth, hear Yahweh’s word!

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?