Job 8:6

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.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

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

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

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

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

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;

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

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.

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

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.

Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

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

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

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

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

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

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.”

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

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

There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

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

Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

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

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

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

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

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

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.

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

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