13 Bible Verses about Answering God

“He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.

“[Then] You will call, and I will answer You;
You will long for [me] the work of Your hands.

“Then I will give her her vineyards from there,
And make the Valley of Achor a door of hope and expectation [anticipating the time when I will restore My favor on her].
And she will sing there and respond as in the days of her youth
As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

“O My people, what have I done to you [since you have turned away from Me]?
And how have I wearied you? Answer Me.

I will stand at my guard post
And station myself on the tower;
And I will keep watch to see what He will say to me,
And what answer I will give [as His spokesman] when I am reproved.

“How can I answer Him [and plead my case],
Choosing my words [to reason] with Him?

What then could I do when God arises [to judge me]?
When He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?

I will destine you for the sword, [says the Lord],
And all of you will bow down to the slaughter,
Because when I called, you did not answer;
When I spoke, you did not listen or obey.
But you did [what was] evil in My sight
And chose that in which I did not delight.”

So I will choose their punishments,
And will bring the things they dread upon them
Because I called, but no one answered;
I spoke, but they did not listen or obey.
But they did evil in My sight
And chose that in which I did not delight.”

Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold (hear this), I am bringing on Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them, but they have not listened, and I have called to them, but they have not answered.’”

“For God is not a [mere] man, as I am, that I may answer Him,
That we may go to court and judgment together.

“If one should want to contend or dispute with Him,
He could not answer Him once in a thousand times.

On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers [arrogantly] back to God and dares to defy Him? Will the thing which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”