Zechariah 7:13

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“‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had said.

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  • Prov 1:24-28 : 24 However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention, 25 and you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke, 26 so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes, 27 when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you. 28 Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.
  • Jer 14:12 : 12 Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.”
  • Jer 11:11 : 11 So I, the LORD, say this:‘I will soon bring disaster on them which they will not be able to escape! When they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.
  • Mic 3:4 : 4 Someday these sinful leaders will cry to the LORD for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds.”
  • Jas 4:3 : 3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.
  • Ps 81:8-9 : 8 I said,‘Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me! 9 There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god. 10 I am the LORD, your God, the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!’ 11 But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me. 12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.
  • Jer 6:16-17 : 16 The LORD said to his people:“You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. Ask where the old, reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls.” But they said,“We will not follow it!” 17 The LORD said,“I appointed prophets as watchmen to warn you, saying:‘Pay attention to the warning sound of the trumpet!’” But they said,“We will not pay attention!”
  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?
  • Ezek 20:3 : 3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, declares the Sovereign LORD.’
  • Isa 50:2 : 2 Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered.
  • Prov 28:9 : 9 The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
  • Matt 25:11-12 : 11 Later, the other virgins came too, saying,‘Lord, lord! Let us in!’ 12 But he replied,‘I tell you the truth, I do not know you!’
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him,‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you,‘I don’t know where you come from.’
  • Luke 13:34-35 : 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it! 35 Look, your house is forsaken! And I tell you, you will not see me until you say,‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
  • Luke 19:42-44 : 42 saying,“If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side. 44 They will demolish you– you and your children within your walls– and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

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