From Nave’s Topical Bible
Prayerlessness
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 15Passages listed
- 8Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
The passages, in Bible order (15)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 15 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Job 15:4
But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
Commentary on Job 15:42 voices
Hence he adds, Yea, thou castest off fear, and hast taken prayer before God. 'Taken' means 'taken away;' as if he said in plain terms, 'Presuming on Thine own righteousness, thou scornest to implore the grace of Thy Creator.' For when heretics do not find real evils to urge against the good, they feign things to reproach them with, that they may seem righteous, and it very often happens, that they come to open words of insult.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XII, 604Patristic
Yea, thou castest off fear,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Job 21:14
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Commentary on Job 21:142 voices
Ver. 14. Who say unto God, Depart from us. 50. To say this in words even foolish men have not the boldness, yet all wicked persons say to God, not by their words but by their ways, Depart from us. For they that do those things which Almighty God forbids, what else are they doing but shutting up their soul against the Almighty. For just as to think of His precepts, is to introduce Him into one's self, so to resist His commandments is to keep Him away from the dwelling-place of the heart.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XV, 604Patristic
Therefore they say unto God,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Job 21:15
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
Commentary on Job 21:151 voice
Ver. 15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? 52. For the mind of man being miserably discharged without, is so dissipated in things corporeal, as neither to return to itself within, nor to be able to think of Him, Who is invisible. Thus carnal men setting at nought spiritual commands, because they do not see God with bodily sight, one time or another come to this pass, that they even imagine Him not to be. Hence it is written, The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XV, 604Patristic
- Job 27:10
Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
Commentary on Job 27:102 voices
Or will he be able to delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God? For he that is overcome by the love of earthly things, in no degree delights himself in God.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVIII, 604Patristic
Will he delight himself in the Almighty?....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 14:4
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
Commentary on Psalms 14:42 voices
"Shall they not." Here he treats of the hope of liberation. And first he shows that the wicked do not have hope, because "shall they not know." Second he shows what this hope is, at "Who shall give from Zion." Concerning the first, he does …
Thomas Aquinas· Exposition on the Psalms of David, 1274Patristic
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?.... Of the being of God, of the nature of sin, and of the punishment due unto it? This question is put either by way of admiration, as Kimchi and Aben Ezra observe; the psalmist, or rather God speaking after the manner of men, wondering that there should be such ignorance and stupidity among men, as before expressed; or rather, as denying this to be the case, and affirming that they have knowledge, notwithstanding they think, and say, and do, as before related, as in Rom 9:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 53:4
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
Commentary on Psalms 53:41 voice
"Shall they not know," etc. Above, the Psalmist introduced the judge looking upon iniquity and uselessness. Here he treats of the sentence of judgment. And first as to the condemnation of the wicked. Second as to the salvation of the good, at "Who shall give," …
Thomas Aquinas· Exposition on the Psalms of David, 1274Patristic
- Psalms 79:6
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
Commentary on Psalms 79:62 voices
Ver. 6. "Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee." If thou must smite look further afield; spare thy children and strike thy foes. There are lands where thou art in no measure acknowledged; be pleased to visit these first with thy judgments, and let thine erring Israel have a respite. "And upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name." Hear us the prayerful, and avenge thyself upon the prayerless.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David (1869-1885)Reformed
Pour out thy wrath upon the Heathen that have not known thee,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 43:22
But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
Commentary on Isaiah 43:221 voice
(Verse 22) You did not call upon me, Jacob: you did not labor for me, Israel. LXX: You have not now called, Jacob, nor have I made you labor, Israel. The beasts of the field, dragons and ostriches praising me, you, Jacob, did not want to invoke me, nor afterwards did you labor to amend sin through repentance.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Isaiah 64:7
No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
Commentary on Isaiah 64:72 voices
(Verse 7) There is no one who calls upon your name, who rises and holds on to you. You have hidden your face from us and have afflicted us in the hand of our iniquity. LXX: And there is no one who calls upon your name and remembers to grasp you. For you have turned your face away from us and have delivered us because of our iniquities.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
And there is none that calleth upon thy name,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Jeremiah 10:21
For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
Commentary on Jeremiah 10:212 voices
(Verse 21.) Because the shepherds acted foolishly and did not seek the Lord: therefore, they did not understand, and the whole flock was scattered. Through the fault and dispersal of the shepherds and sheep, the culpability and scattering of the people is described. For the princes acted foolishly and did not seek the Lord, whom they should have sought with their whole heart: therefore, they did not see the coming evils, or did not understand the Lord, and the whole multitude of Jerusalem was scattered here and there.
Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420Patristic
For the pastors are become brutish,.... The "kings" of Judah, so the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, as Jehoiakim and Zedekiah; though it need not be restrained to these only, but may include all inferior civil magistrates, and even all ecclesiastical rulers, who were the shepherds of the people; but these being like the brute beasts, and without understanding of civil and religious things, and not knowing how to govern the people either in a political or ecclesiastical way, were the cause of their ruin.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
Commentary on Jeremiah 10:252 voices
Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
(Verse 24, 25.) Rebuke me, O Lord, but with justice, not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing. Pour out your indignation on the nations that do not know you, and on the provinces (or generations) that have not invoked your name, for they have devoured Jacob and consumed his dwelling place, and they have scattered (or reduced to desolation) his glory (or pasture). We also read this passage in the psalm: O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger; do not discipline me in your wrath (Psalm 6:1; 38:1).
Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420Patristic
- Daniel 9:13
Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.
Commentary on Daniel 9:132 voices
Verse 13. "'All this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated Thy face, O Lord our God, that we might turn back from our iniquities and consider Thy truth.'" Their obduracy was so great that even in the midst of their toils they would not entreat God, and even if they had entreated Him, it would not have been a genuine entreaty, because they had not turned back from their iniquities. Yet to consider the truth of God is equivalent to turning back from iniquity.
Jerome· St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER NINE, 420Patristic
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Hosea 7:7
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
Commentary on Hosea 7:71 voice
"all of them were heated like a hot oven, and they devoured their judges: all their kings fell, there is none who cries out to me from them." LXX: "All are heated like an oven of burning fire, and fire devoured their judges. All their kings fell: there is none among them who calls upon me." What more?
Jerome· Commentary on Hosea 7:5-7, 420Patristic
- Jonah 1:6
The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
Commentary on Jonah 1:61 voice
"So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest you, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not." LXX: "and the helmsman come to him and he said to him, what are you doing sleeping? Get up, and call upon your God. If he can find a way to save us then we may not die. It is natural that each one has more confidence in someone else when they feel themselves to be in such danger.
Jerome· Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 1, 420Patristic
- Zephaniah 1:6
and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
Commentary on Zephaniah 1:62 voices
And them that are turned back from the Lord,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
(Verse 4 and following) And I will stretch out my hand over Judah and over all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and I will destroy from this place the remnants of Baal, and the names of the idolatrous priests together with the priests, and those who worship on the rooftops the host of heaven, and those who worship and swear by the Lord, and swear by Melchom; and those who turn away from the Lord, and those who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.
Jerome· Commentary on Zephaniah, 420Patristic