Verse 13

Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:29 : 29 Far `is' Jehovah from the wicked, And the prayer of the righteous He heareth.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.
  • Jer 11:11 : 11 Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am bringing in unto them evil, That they are not able to go out from, And they have cried unto Me, And I do not hearken unto them.
  • Jas 4:3 : 3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.
  • Prov 28:9 : 9 Whoso is turning his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer `is' an abomination.
  • Eccl 5:1-3 : 1 Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil. 2 Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few. 3 For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.
  • Hos 7:14 : 14 And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.
  • Hos 8:2-3 : 2 To Me they cry, `My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.' 3 Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.
  • Amos 5:22 : 22 For though ye cause burnt-offerings and your presents to ascend to Me, I am not pleased, And the peace-offering of your fatlings I behold not.
  • Matt 6:7 : 7 `And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,
  • Matt 20:21-22 : 21 and he said to her, `What wilt thou?' She saith to him, `Say, that they may sit -- these my two sons -- one on thy right hand, and one on the left, in thy reign.' 22 And Jesus answering said, `Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, `We are able.'
  • Job 22:22-27 : 22 Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart. 23 If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents. 24 So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering. 25 And the Mighty hath been thy defence, And silver `is' strength to thee. 26 For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost lift up unto God thy face, 27 Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear thee, And thy vows thou completest.
  • Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what `is' the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul? 9 His cry doth God hear, When distress cometh on him?
  • Job 30:20 : 20 I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.
  • Ps 102:17 : 17 He turned unto the prayer of the destitute, And He hath not despised their prayer.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked `is' an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright `is' His delight.