Proverbs 28:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ When one will not listen to the law, even one’s prayers are an abomination.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer shall be abomination.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He who turns away his ear from hearing the law [of God and man], even his prayer is an abomination, hateful and revolting [to God]. [Ps. 66:18; 109:7; Prov. 15:8; Zech. 7:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

Common English Bible

⁹ Those who turn their ears from hearing Instruction— even their prayers will be detested.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Whoever turns away his ears from listening to the law: his prayer will be detestable.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be as abomination.

Proverbs 28:9 Krydshenvisninger

Psalm 109:7

When he is tried, let him be found guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin.

Psalm 66:18

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Psalm 94:20

Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who contrive mischief by statute?

Proverbs 10:3

The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:13

If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when brought with evil intent.

Isaiah 41:24

You, indeed, are nothing, and your work is nothing at all; whoever chooses you is an abomination.

Jeremiah 14:12

Although they fast, I do not hear their cry, and although they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I do not accept them, but by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence I consume them.

John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his will.