Proverbs 1:28

“Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

So Saul asked of Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by prophets.

but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against His people, until there was no remedy.

“Will God hear his cry When distress comes upon him?

“There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil men.

They cried for help, but there was none to save, Even to Yahweh, but He did not answer them.

If I see wickedness in my heart, The Lord will not hear;

Yahweh is far from the wicked, But He hears the prayer of the righteous.

A man who hardens his neck after much reproof Will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

“I opened to my beloved, But my beloved had turned away and passed by! My soul went out to him as he spoke. I searched for him, but I did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am bringing calamity on them which they will not be able to get out of; and they will cry to Me, yet I will not listen to them.

“When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine, and pestilence.”

They will go with their flocks and herds To seek Yahweh, but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn from them.

Then they will cry out to Yahweh, But He will not answer them. Instead, He will hide His face from them at that time Because they have practiced evil deeds.

“And it happened that just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says Yahweh of hosts;