[ 6:4] And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men forever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be one hundred and twenty years.

Will God hear his prayer? Or when distress has come upon him,

There they shall cry, and none shall hear, even because of the insolence of wicked men.

They cried, but there was no deliverer: [even] to the Lord, but He hearkened not to them.

When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I bring evils upon this people, out of which they shall not be able to come forth; and they shall presently cry to Me, but I will not listen to them.

for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.

Therefore will I deal with them in wrath: My eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy.

thus they shall cry to the Lord, but He shall not hearken to them; and He shall turn away His face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.

Therefore it came to pass, [that] as He spoke and they did not listen, so they shall cry, and I will not listen, says the Lord Almighty.

Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name we cast out demons, and in Your name we did many mighty works?'

"And then I will confess to them, 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, you who work iniquity!'

"But as they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.

"But he answered and said, 'Assuredly I say to you, I do not know you.'

When once the Master of the house has risen up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and answering He will say to you, 'I do not know you, where you are from.'

But He will say, 'I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.'

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend [it] in [gratifying] your lusts.

When He slew them, they sought Him; and they returned and sought diligently after God.

Yet they loved Him [only] with their mouth, and lied to Him with their tongue.

I will go and return to My place, until they are brought to nought, and [then] shall they seek My face.

In their affliction they will seek Me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for He has torn, and will heal us; He will smite, and bind us up.

Let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find Him ready as the morning, and He will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.