Lexicon :: Strong's H241 - 'ōzen

This is why you are great, Lord GOD. There is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, as all we have heard confirms.

The man replied to Joab, “Even if I had the weight of a thousand pieces of silver[fn] in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son. For we heard the king command you, Abishai, and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for me.’[fn]

I called to the LORD in my distress;

I called to my God.

From his temple he heard my voice,

and my cry for help reached his ears.

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah said to the royal spokesman, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak with us in Hebrew[fn] within earshot of the people on the wall.”

Listen closely, LORD, and hear; open your eyes, LORD, and see. Hear the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.

“this is what the LORD God of Israel says: ‘I am about to bring such a disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will shudder.[fn]

Then the king went to the LORD’s temple with all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets ​— ​all the people from the youngest to the oldest. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the LORD’s temple.

LORD, there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, as all we have heard confirms.

“So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and follow all the commands of the LORD your God so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

Now, my God,

please let your eyes be open

and your ears attentive

to the prayer of this place.

My eyes will now be open and my ears attentive to prayer from this place.

The king went up to the LORD’s temple with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites ​— ​all the people from the oldest to the youngest. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the LORD’s temple.

let your eyes be open and your ears be attentive to hear your servant’s prayer that I now pray to you day and night for your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins[fn] we have committed against you. Both I and my father’s family have sinned.

While he was facing the square in front of the Water Gate, he read out of it from daybreak until noon before the men, the women, and those who could understand. All the people listened attentively[fn] to the book of the law.

At that time the book of Moses was read publicly to[fn] the people. The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

A word was brought to me in secret;

my ears caught a whisper of it.

Doesn’t the ear test words

as the palate tastes food?

Look, my eyes have seen all this;

my ears have heard and understood it.

Dreadful sounds fill his ears;

when he is at peace, a robber attacks him.

Abaddon and Death say,

“We have heard news of it with our ears.”

When they heard me, they blessed me,

and when they saw me, they spoke well of me.[fn]

Surely you have spoken in my hearing,

and I have heard these very[fn] words:

Doesn’t the ear test words

as the palate tastes food?

He opens their ears to correction

and tells them to repent from iniquity.

I had heard reports about you,

but now my eyes have seen you.

LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble;

you will strengthen their hearts.

You will listen carefully,

I call on you, God,

because you will answer me;

listen closely to me; hear what I say.

I called to the LORD in my distress,

and I cried to my God for help.

From his temple he heard my voice,

and my cry to him reached his ears.

Listen closely to me; rescue me quickly.

Be a rock of refuge for me,

a mountain fortress to save me.

The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,

and his ears are open to their cry for help.

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;

you open my ears to listen.[fn]

You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

God, we have heard with our ears —

our ancestors have told us —

the work you accomplished in their days,

in days long ago:

Listen, daughter, pay attention and consider:

Forget your people and your father’s house,

I turn my ear to a proverb;

I explain my riddle with a lyre.

They have venom like the venom of a snake,

like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

In your justice, rescue and deliver me;

listen closely to me and save me.

My people, hear my instruction;

listen to the words from my mouth.

Listen, LORD, and answer me,

for I am poor and needy.

May my prayer reach your presence;

listen to my cry.

My eyes look at my enemies;

when evildoers rise against me,

my ears hear them.

Can the one who shaped the ear not hear,

the one who formed the eye not see?