Proverbs 1:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

Cross References

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”

Job 27:9

Will God hear their cry when trouble comes upon them?

Job 35:12

There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evildoers.

Psalm 18:41

They cried for help, but there was no one to save them; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.

Psalm 18:42

I beat them fine, like dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

Psalm 66:18

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

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Song of Solomon 5:6

I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned away and was gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him but did not find him; I called him, but he gave no answer.

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, thus says the Lord, assuredly I am going to bring disaster upon them that they cannot escape; though they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

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.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”

Hosea 5:15

I will return again to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face. In their distress they will beg my favor:

Hosea 5:6

With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

Amos 8:12

They shall wander from sea to sea and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time because they have acted wickedly.

Zechariah 7:13

Just as, when I called, they would not hear, so, when they called, I would not hear, says the Lord of hosts,

Deuteronomy 1:45

When you returned and wept before the Lord, the Lord would neither heed your voice nor pay you any attention.

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.

1 Samuel 8:18

And on that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you on that day.”