19 Bible Verses about Not Praying

Jehovah said to Moses: Why are you crying out to me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward.

As for you, do not pray for this people. Do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me for I do not hear you.

Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not cry or pray for them. I will not listen when they call to me for help in times of trouble.

Jehovah said to me: Do not pray for the good of these people.

All the governors of the kingdom, the deputies and the governors, the counselors consulted together to establish a royal statute. They made a strong decree, that whoever prays to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of lions.

They approached the king about his decree: Did you sign a decree stating that every man that shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of lions? The king answered: The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be altered.

So I thought the Philistines will come against me at Gilgal. I have not sought Jehovah's favor. I felt pressured into sacrificing the burnt offering.

Jacob, you have not prayed to me. Israel, you have grown tired of me.

I permitted myself to be sought by those who did not ask for me. Those who did not seek me found me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said: 'Here I am, here I am.'

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?

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread. They have not called upon God.

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.

They are all as hot as an oven. They consume their rulers like a fire. All their kings die in battle, and none of them calls to me.

Pour your fury (anger) on the nations that do not know you, on the kingdoms that have not called you.

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.

The godless in heart harbor resentment. Even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help.

And they do not cry to me from their heart when they wail on their beds. For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble, but they turn away from me.

Until now you have not asked a single thing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

I do not pray that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.