Isaiah 43:22
Jacob, you have not prayed to me. Israel, you have grown tired of me.
Micah 6:3
O my people, what have I done to you? How have I grieved you? Respond to me.
Malachi 1:13
And you say: 'We are tired of all this!' You turn up your nose at me. You offer the lame and the sick and even stolen animals, said Jehovah. Do you think I will accept that from you?
Malachi 3:14
You have said: 'There is no value to serve God. What is the use of doing what he says or of trying to show Jehovah of Hosts that we are sorry for what we have done?'
Job 21:14-15
They say to God: 'Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.'
Job 27:9-10
Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?
Psalm 14:4
Are all the workers of wickedness, those who devour my people as if they were devouring food, so ignorant that they do not call on Jehovah?
Psalm 79:6
Pour your fury (anger) on the nations that do not know you, on the kingdoms that have not called you.
Isaiah 64:7
No one calls on your name or tries to hold on to you. You have hidden your face from us. You allowed us be ruined by our sins.
Jeremiah 2:5
Jehovah says: What bad thing (injustice) did your fathers find in me that they went so far away from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless (lead astray) themselves.
Jeremiah 2:11-13
Has any nation ever exchanged gods? Their gods are not really gods. Yet my people have exchanged their glory for something that does not help them.
Jeremiah 2:31-32
O you people of this generation consider the word of Jehovah! Have I been a wilderness, a land of thick darkness, for Israel? Why do my people say that they are free to wander around and no longer come to me?
Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your fury on the nations who do not know you and on people who do not worship you. They have devoured the descendants of Jacob. They have devoured them completely. They have destroyed their homes.
Daniel 9:13
As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us. Yet we have not earnestly requested the favor of Jehovah our God. We should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
Hosea 7:10-14
Israel, your arrogance testifies against you. Even after all this, you do not return to Jehovah your God or look to him for help.
Hosea 14:1-2
Return, O Israel, to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
John 6:66-69
After this many of his disciples returned to their old ways. They did not walk with him anymore.
James 4:2-3
You lust, and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain! You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.