They looked, but there was none to save —to Adonai, but He did not answer them.
When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. When you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood!”
When Saul inquired of Adonai, Adonai did not answer, neither by dreams nor by Urim or prophets.
Then they will cry out to Adonai, but He will not answer them. Thus He will hide His face from them at that time, because of their evil deeds.
Then they will cry out to me, but I will not answer! They will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel. Say to them, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live’—it is a declaration of Adonai—‘I will not be inquired of by you.’
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?
In that day a man will look to his Maker and his eyes will turn to the Holy One of Israel.
He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor will he look to what his fingers have made—neither the Asherah poles nor the sun-images.