Quotes About Response

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëBehold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.í”

When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”

Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.

When Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him heard of all the crimes that Ishmael son of Nethaniah had committed,

“I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will surely pray to the LORD your God as you request, and I will tell you everything that the LORD answers; I will not withhold a word from you.”

For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you.

“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,

“Son of man,” He said to me, “stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.”

And as He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and I heard Him speaking to me.

And whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

Then the man clothed in linen with the writing kit at his side reported back, “I have done as You commanded.”

“Son of man, hasnít the rebellious house of Israel asked you, ëWhat are you doing?í

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBecause you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,

The countryside will shake when your sailors cry out.

As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ëCome and hear the message that has come from the LORD!í

Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.

The king replied, “I know for sure that you are stalling for time, because you see that my word is final.

This response made the king so furious with anger that he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

“Why is the decree from the king so harsh?” he asked. At this time Arioch explained the situation to Daniel.

“Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.