Lamentations 3:44

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.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

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.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

“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.

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.”

He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who call on his name. They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.

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

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.

therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

For through Yahweh’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

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.”

“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

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.”

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;

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.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.

I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

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

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

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

It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Yahweh said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good.

I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.

Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?