2 Samuel 22:42
They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.
BSB
ASV
They looked, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.
KJV
They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
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Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
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Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
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Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
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And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
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But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
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Micah 3:4Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
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When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
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1 Samuel 28:6He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets.
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He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
So Saul inquired of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You give them into the hand of Israel?” But God did not answer him that day.
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find…
