19 Bible Verses about Not Praying

Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.

Yahweh said to me, Don't pray for this people for [their] good.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree: Haven't you signed an decree, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter.

therefore I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh.' I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering."

Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

"I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?

There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, and on the families that don't call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

"But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.

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.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.