Lexicon :: Strong's H241 - 'ōzen

In my ears the LORD of hosts said, “Be assured that many houses will become desolate,

Even great and beautiful ones will be unoccupied.

“Make the heart of this people insensitive,

Their ears dull,

And their eyes dim,

Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

Hear with their ears,

Understand with their hearts,

And return and be healed.”

And He will delight in the fear of the LORD,

And He will not judge by what His eyes see,

Nor make decisions by what His ears hear;

But the LORD of hosts revealed Himself in my ears,

“This sin absolutely will not be forgiven you

Until you die,” says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded,

And the ears of those who hear will listen attentively.

He who walks righteously and speaks with integrity,

Who rejects gain from fraud and from oppression,

Who shakes his hand free from the taking of bribes,

Who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed

And shuts his eyes to avoid looking upon evil;

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened

And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please, speak to your servants in Aramaic, because we understand it; and do not speak to us in Judean (Hebrew) in the hearing of the people who are [stationed] on the wall.”

“Because your raging against Me

And your arrogance has come up to My ears,

I will put My hook in your nose

And My bridle in your [fn]mouth,

And I will turn you back by the way you came.

You have seen many things, but you do not observe them;

Your ears are open, but no one hears.

Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,

And the deaf, even though they have ears.

“You have not heard, you have not known;

Even from long ago your ear has not been open.

For I [the LORD] knew that you [Israel] would act very treacherously;

You have been called a transgressor and a rebel from birth.

“The children of your bereavement [those born in captivity] will yet say in your ears,

‘The place is too cramped for me’;

Make room for me that I may live here.

The Lord GOD has given Me [His [fn]Servant] the tongue of disciples [as One who is taught],

That I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.

He awakens Me morning by morning,

He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple [as One who is taught].

“Incline your ear [to listen] and come to Me;

Hear, so that your soul may live;

And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,

According to the faithful mercies [promised and] shown to David.

Behold, the LORD’S hand is not so short

That it cannot save,

Nor His ear so [fn]impaired

That it cannot hear.