The LORD {is} far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. {make...: Heb. multiply prayer} {blood: Heb. bloods}

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume {it} upon your lusts. {lusts: or, pleasures}

Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. {to escape: Heb. to go forth of}

The sacrifice of the wicked {is} an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright {is} his delight.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me {not}.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer {shall be} abomination.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, {and} they rebel against me.

Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept {them}: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. {peace...: or, thank offerings}

For what {is} the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen {do}: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?