Proverbs 1:24

World English Bible (2000)

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

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  • Isa 65:12 : 12 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."
  • Isa 66:4 : 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."
  • Jer 7:13 : 13 Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't answer:
  • Rom 10:21 : 21 But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."
  • Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
  • Matt 22:5-6 : 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, 6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
  • Matt 23:37-38 : 37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! 38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
  • Acts 4:30 : 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."
  • Heb 12:25-26 : 25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven, 26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
  • Ps 31:20 : 20 In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
  • Isa 50:2 : 2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

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  • 25 but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

  • 23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

  • 13 Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't answer:

  • Prov 1:28-30
    3 verses
    77%

    28 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

    29 because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

    30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

  • 17 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.

  • 21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.

  • Isa 65:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 "I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

    2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

  • 27 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,

  • 19 because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 25:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

    8 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies: Because you have not heard my words,

  • Prov 5:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

    13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

  • 2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

  • 12 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."

  • 11 But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

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

  • 6 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you have gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.

  • 13 Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

  • 27 You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

  • Jer 26:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

    5 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;

  • 21 But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

  • 4 "To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.

  • 15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.

  • 6 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

  • 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."

  • 29 "Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says Yahweh.

  • 13 It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said Yahweh of Armies;

  • 17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

  • 16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

  • 21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

  • 1 "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

  • 7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • 33 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

  • 17 I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen!'

  • 22 Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

  • 19 Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

  • 22 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

  • 10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen. Behold, the word of Yahweh has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

  • 14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

  • 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

  • 7 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

  • 11 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.

  • 17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.

  • 31 Generation, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'

  • 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.