If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.p>

<p class="poetry">I<n id="1" /> have refused<n id="2" /> to touch such things;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they are like loathsome food to me.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry"><sc>Lordsc>, I know you look for faithfulness.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected.p> <p class="poetry">They have become as hardheaded as a rock.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They refuse to change their ways.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">They did not keep their covenant with God,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and they refused to obey<n id="2" /> his law.p>

<p class="poetry">However,<n id="1" /> because<n id="2" /> I called but you refused to listen,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">because<n id="4" /> I stretched out my hand<n id="5" /> but no one paid attention,p>

<p class="poetry">The violence<n id="1" /> done by the wicked<n id="2" /> will drag them awayp> <p class="poetry">because<n id="3" /> they refuse to do what is right.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">What the sluggard desires<n id="1" /> will kill him,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for his hands<n id="3" /> refuse to work.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Pharaoh&#8217;s heart is hard;<n id="2" /> he refuses to release<n id="3" /> the people.

So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;How long do you refuse<n id="1" /> to obey my commandments and my instructions?

So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.p>

So the princes of Moab departed<n id="1" /> and went back to Balak and said, &#8220;Balaam refused to come with us.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">But the people refused to heed Samuel&#8217;s warning.<n id="1" /> Instead they said, &#8220;No! There will be a king over us!

But Elisha<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;As certainly as the <sc>Lordsc> lives (whom I serve),<n id="2" /> I will take nothing from you.&#8221; Naaman<n id="3" /> insisted that he take it, but he refused.

<p class="poetry">But if you refuse and rebel,p> <p class="poetry">you will be devoured<n id="1" /> by the sword.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Know for certain that the <sc>Lordsc> has spoken.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">That is why the rains have been withheld,p> <p class="poetry">and the spring rains have not come.p> <p class="poetry">Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.p>

<p class="poetry">Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">continually turn away from me in apostasy?p> <p class="poetry">They hold fast to their deception.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They refuse to turn back to me.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They do one act of violence after another,p> <p class="poetry">and one deceitful thing after another.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They refuse to pay attention to me,&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">They will return to Egypt!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Assyria will rule over them<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because they refuse to repent!<n id="3" />p>

All his sons and daughters stood by<n id="1" /> him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. &#8220;No,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will go to the grave mourning my son.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Joseph&#8217;s<n id="3" /> father wept for him.p>