19 Bible Verses about Not Praying

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward.

“As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you.

“Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.

So the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the welfare of this people.

All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions’ den.

Then they approached and spoke before the king about the king’s injunction, “Did you not sign an injunction that any man who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, is to be cast into the lions’ den?” The king replied, “The statement is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.”

therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering.”

“Yet you have not called on Me, O Jacob;
But you have become weary of Me, O Israel.

“I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’
To a nation which did not call on My name.

Do all the workers of wickedness not know,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

There is no one who calls on Your name,
Who arouses himself to take hold of You;
For You have hidden Your face from us
And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities.

All of them are hot like an oven,
And they consume their rulers;
All their kings have fallen.
None of them calls on Me.

Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You,
And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You
And on the families that do not call Your name;
For they have devoured Jacob;
They have devoured him and consumed him
And have laid waste his habitation.

“But the godless in heart lay up anger;
They do not cry for help when He binds them.

And they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble themselves,
They turn away from Me.

Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.