Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to 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.

They cry to me, 'My God, we Israel acknowledge you!'

In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."

You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Regard

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

General references

They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.