Hosea 5:6
They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.
Proverbs 1:28
Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
Micah 6:6-7
How shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Exodus 10:9
Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to the LORD."
Exodus 10:24-26
Pharaoh called to Moses and said, "Go, serve the LORD. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you."
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind.
Song of Songs 5:6
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I did not find him. I called him, but he did not answer.
Isaiah 1:11-15
"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says the LORD. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Isaiah 66:3
He who slaughters an ox is like one who strikes down 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:
Jeremiah 7:4
Do not trust in lying words, saying, "The LORD's temple, The LORD's temple, The LORD's temple, are these."
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will bring disaster on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.
Lamentations 3:44
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Ezekiel 8:6
He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other great abominations."
Ezekiel 8:18
therefore I will also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them."
Amos 5:21-23
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.
Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."
Luke 5:16
But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.
John 7:34
You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you cannot come."