'Answer' in the Bible

Now, because you have done all these things”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and because I have spoken to you time and time again but you wouldn’t listen, and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,

“When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you.

Then you will answer them: Because your fathers abandoned Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. Indeed, they abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

They will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God and worshiped and served other gods.’”

Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and incomprehensible things you do not know.

Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them because I have spoken to them, but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them, but they would not answer.”