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

I ¹  have refused ²  to touch such things; ³  they are like loathsome food to me. ⁴ 

Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. ¹  But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. ²  Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. ³  They refuse to change their ways. ⁴ 

They did not keep their covenant with God, ¹  and they refused to obey ²  his law.

However, ¹  because ²  I called but you refused to listen, ³  because ⁴  I stretched out my hand ⁵  but no one paid attention,

The violence ¹  done by the wicked ²  will drag them away because ³  they refuse to do what is right. ⁴ 

What the sluggard desires ¹  will kill him, ²  for his hands ³  refuse to work.

“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

¹ The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard; ²  he refuses to release ³  the people.

So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse ¹  to obey my commandments and my instructions?

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

So the princes of Moab departed ¹  and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. ¹  Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us!

But Elisha ¹  replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), ²  I will take nothing from you.” Naaman ³  insisted that he take it, but he refused.

But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured ¹  by the sword.” Know for certain that the Lord has spoken. ² 

That is why the rains have been withheld, and the spring rains have not come. Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute. ¹  You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.

Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem ¹  continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. ²  They refuse to turn back to me. ³ 

They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. ¹  They refuse to pay attention to me,” ²  says the Lord.

They will return to Egypt! ¹  Assyria will rule over them ²  because they refuse to repent! ³ 

All his sons and daughters stood by ¹  him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” ²  So Joseph’s ³  father wept for him.