Job 35:13
Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.
Proverbs 15:29
Far is Jehovah from the wicked, And the prayer of the righteous He heareth.
Isaiah 1:15
And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am bringing in unto them evil, That they are not able to go out from, And they have cried unto Me, And I do not hearken unto them.
James 4:3
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.
Job 22:22-27
Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.
Job 27:8-9
For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
Job 30:20
I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.
Psalm 102:17
He turned unto the prayer of the destitute, And He hath not despised their prayer.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Proverbs 28:9
Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-3
Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.
Hosea 7:14
And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.
Hosea 8:2-3
To Me they cry, 'My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.'
Amos 5:22
For though ye cause burnt-offerings and your presents to ascend to Me, I am not pleased, And the peace-offering of your fatlings I behold not.
Matthew 6:7
And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,
Matthew 20:21-22
and he said to her, 'What wilt thou?' She saith to him, 'Say, that they may sit -- these my two sons -- one on thy right hand, and one on the left, in thy reign.'