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Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.
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Isaiah 9:13
The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
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Amos 4:6-13
“ I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.“ I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;so two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.“ I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.“ I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.“ I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.“ Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
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Romans 3:11
no one understands; no one seeks for God.
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Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
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Psalms 14:2
The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
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Proverbs 27:22
Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
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Jeremiah 8:5-6
Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying,‘ What have I done?’ Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
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Jeremiah 25:5-7
saying,‘ Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
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Zechariah 1:4
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out,‘ Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
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Hosea 6:1
“ Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
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Hosea 7:7
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.
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Jeremiah 35:15-17
I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying,‘ Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command that their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me.Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered.”
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Psalms 10:4
In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are,“ There is no God.”
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Psalms 53:2
God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.