Isaiah 43:22
"But you did not call for me, O Jacob; you did not long for me, O Israel.
Micah 6:3
"My people, how have I wronged you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!
Malachi 1:13
You also say, 'How tiresome it is.' You turn up your nose at it," says the Lord who rules over all, "and instead bring what is stolen, lame, or sick. You bring these things for an offering! Should I accept this from you?" asks the Lord.
Malachi 3:14
You have said, 'It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?
Job 21:14-15
So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.
Job 27:9-10
Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him?
Psalm 14:4
All those who behave wickedly do not understand -- those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord.
Psalm 79:6
Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not pray to you!
Isaiah 64:7
No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.
Jeremiah 2:5
This is what the Lord says: "What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.
Jeremiah 2:11-13
Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!
Jeremiah 2:31-32
You people of this generation, listen to what the Lord says. "Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say, 'We are free to wander. We will not come to you any more?'
Jeremiah 10:25
Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.
Daniel 9:13
Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.
Hosea 7:10-14
The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God! In spite of all this they refuse to seek him!
Hosea 14:1-2
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!
John 6:66-69
After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.
James 4:2-3
You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;