Prayerlessness

Not praying is described in Scripture as a way of leaving God out. Some say to him, “Depart from us,” and ask “what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?” The prophets name the same neglect: “there is none that calleth upon thy name,” and shepherds who “have not sought the LORD.” Even Israel hears, “thou hast not called upon me.” Yet the book of Jonah shows the opposite call, as a ship’s captain wakes a sleeping prophet in the storm: “arise, call upon thy God.” Jonah 1:6 is a short place to start.

15 verses

Job

Job 15:4

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

Job 21:14

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 21:15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Job 27:10

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Psalms

Psalms 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

Psalms 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Psalms 79:6

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

Isaiah

Isaiah 43:22

But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

Isaiah 64:7

And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 10:21

For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Daniel

Daniel 9:13

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

Hosea

Hosea 7:7

They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

Jonah

Jonah 1:6

So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

Zephaniah

Zephaniah 1:6

And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.