What hope is there for the godless in the hour when God demands their life?

When trouble comes, will God hear their cries?

They cry for help, but God doesn't answer, for they are proud and evil.

Now take seven bulls and seven rams to Job and offer them as a sacrifice for yourselves. Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer and not disgrace you the way you deserve. You did not speak the truth about me as he did."

They cry for help, but no one saves them; they call to the LORD, but he does not answer.

The LORD watches over the righteous and listens to their cries;

If I had ignored my sins, the Lord would not have listened to me.

I praise God, because he did not reject my prayer or keep back his constant love from me.

Then you will call for wisdom, but I will not answer. You may look for me everywhere, but you will not find me.

You have never had any use for knowledge and have always refused to obey the LORD.

When good people pray, the LORD listens, but he ignores those who are evil.

If you refuse to listen to the cry of the poor, your own cry for help will not be heard.

If you do not obey the law, God will find your prayers too hateful to hear.

"When you lift your hands in prayer, I will not look at you. No matter how much you pray, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with blood.

When you pray, I will answer you. When you call to me, I will respond. "If you put an end to oppression, to every gesture of contempt, and to every evil word;

So now I, the LORD, warn them that I am going to bring destruction on them, and they will not escape. And when they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.

Even if they fast, I will not listen to their cry for help; and even if they offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not be pleased with them. Instead, I will kill them in war and by starvation and disease."

They will feel all the force of my anger. I will not spare them or show them any mercy. They will shout prayers to me as loud as they can, but I will not listen to them."

The time is coming when you will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer you. He will not listen to your prayers, for you have done evil.

Because they did not listen when I spoke, I did not answer when they prayed.

The LORD watches over the righteous and listens to their cries;

When good people pray, the LORD listens, but he ignores those who are evil.

"My food," Jesus said to them, "is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do.

Whoever is willing to do what God wants will know whether what I teach comes from God or whether I speak on my own authority.

You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name.

How I love to do your will, my God! I keep your teaching in my heart."

You are my God; teach me to do your will. Be good to me, and guide me on a safe path.

Then I said, 'Here I am, to do your will, O God, just as it is written of me in the book of the Law.' "

And so, my dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have courage in God's presence.

We receive from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

They took the stone away. Jesus looked up and said, "I thank you, Father, that you listen to me.

I know that you always listen to me, but I say this for the sake of the people here, so that they will believe that you sent me."

Abraham approached the LORD and asked, "Are you really going to destroy the innocent with the guilty?

Surely you won't kill the innocent with the guilty. That's impossible! You can't do that. If you did, the innocent would be punished along with the guilty. That is impossible. The judge of all the earth has to act justly."

Abraham spoke again: "Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. I am only a man and have no right to say anything.

Abraham spoke again: "Perhaps there will be only forty." He replied, "I will not destroy it if there are forty."

Abraham said, "Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. Suppose that only twenty are found?" He said, "I will not destroy the city if I find twenty."

After he had finished speaking with Abraham, the LORD went away, and Abraham returned home.

But when God destroyed the cities of the valley where Lot was living, he kept Abraham in mind and allowed Lot to escape to safety.

But now, give the woman back to her husband. He is a prophet, and he will pray for you, so that you will not die. But if you do not give her back, I warn you that you are going to die, you and all your people."

Then he prayed aloud, "O LORD my God, why have you done such a terrible thing to this widow? She has been kind enough to take care of me, and now you kill her son!"

The LORD answered Elijah's prayer; the child started breathing again and revived.

At the hour of the afternoon sacrifice the prophet Elijah approached the altar and prayed, "O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, prove now that you are the God of Israel and that I am your servant and have done all this at your command.

The LORD sent fire down, and it burned up the sacrifice, the wood, and the stones, scorched the earth and dried up the water in the trench.

Then King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed to God and cried out to him for help.

The LORD sent an angel that killed the soldiers and officers of the Assyrian army. So the emperor went back to Assyria disgraced. One day when he was in the temple of his god, some of his sons killed him with their swords.

Moses and Aaron were his priests, and Samuel was one who prayed to him; they called to the LORD, and he answered them.

When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and kept his anger from destroying them.

Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel were standing here pleading with me, I would not show these people any mercy. Make them go away; make them get out of my sight.

This prayer made in faith will heal the sick; the Lord will restore them to health, and the sins they have committed will be forgiven.

Elijah was the same kind of person as we are. He prayed earnestly that there would be no rain, and no rain fell on the land for three and a half years.