Lexicon :: Strong's H7181 - qāšaḇ

“Has the LORD as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices

As in obedience to the voice of the LORD?

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,

And to heed [is better] than the fat of rams.

Now the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.

“Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept Your law

Or paid attention to Your commandments and Your warnings which You have given them.

“Please hear my argument

And listen to the pleadings of my lips.

“Pay attention, Job, listen to me;

Keep silent, and I will speak.

Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God,

For to You I pray.

O LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble and oppressed;

You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear to hear,

A Prayer of David.

Hear the just (righteous) cause, O LORD; listen to my loud [piercing] cry;

Listen to my prayer, that comes from guileless lips.

Listen to me and answer me;

I am restless and distraught in my complaint and distracted

To the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.

Hear my cry, O God;

Listen to my prayer.

But certainly God has heard [me];

He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

Hear, O LORD, my prayer;

And listen attentively to the voice of my supplications (specific requests)!

“Give attention to my cry,

For I am brought very low;

Rescue me from my persecutors,

For they are stronger than I.

“Because I called and you refused [to answer],

I stretched out my hand and no one has paid attention [to my offer];

So that your ear is attentive to [skillful and godly] wisdom,

And apply your heart to understanding [seeking it conscientiously and striving for it eagerly];

Hear, O children, the instruction of a father,

And pay attention [and be willing to learn] so that you may gain understanding and intelligent discernment.

My son, pay attention to my words and be willing to learn;

Open your ears to my sayings.

My son, be attentive to my wisdom [godly wisdom learned by costly experience],

Incline your ear to my understanding;

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,

And pay attention to the words of my mouth.

An evildoer listens closely to wicked lips;

And a liar pays attention to a destructive and malicious tongue.

If a ruler pays attention to lies [and encourages corruption],

All his officials will become wicked.

(The Bridegroom)

“O you who sit in the gardens,

My companions are listening for your voice—

Let me hear it.”

Cry aloud with your voice [in consternation], O Daughter of Gallim!

Pay attention, Laishah! Answer her, Anathoth!

“When he sees a chariot, horsemen in pairs,

A train of donkeys and a train of camels,

Let him pay attention and listen closely, very closely.”

Listen and hear my voice;

Listen carefully and hear my words.

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

And the ears of those who hear will listen attentively.

Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples!

Let the earth and all that is in it hear, and the world and all that comes forth from it.

Who among you will listen to this?

Who will listen and pay attention in the time to come?

“Oh, that you had paid attention to My commandments!

Then your peace and prosperity would have been like a [flowing] river,

And your righteousness [the holiness and purity of the nation] like the [abundant] waves of the sea.

Listen to [fn]Me, O islands and coastlands,

And pay attention, you peoples from far away.

The LORD has called Me from the womb;

From the body of My mother He has named Me.

“Listen carefully to Me [says the LORD], O My people,

And hear Me, O My nation;

For a [divine] law will go forth from Me,

And I will quickly establish My justice as a light to the peoples.

To whom shall I (Jeremiah) speak and give warning

That they may hear?

Behold, their ears are [fn]closed [absolutely deaf to God]

And they cannot listen.

Behold, the word of the LORD has become a reprimand and an object of scorn to them;

They have no delight in it.

“I have set watchmen (prophets) over you,

Saying, ‘Listen and pay attention to the [warning] sound of the trumpet!’

But they said, ‘We will not listen.’

“Hear, O earth: behold, I am bringing disaster on this people,

The fruit of their schemes,

Because they have not listened and paid attention to My words,

And as for My law, they have rejected it also.

“I have listened and heard,

But they have spoken what is not right;

No man repented of his wickedness,

Saying, ‘What have I done?’

Everyone turns to his [individual] course,

As the horse rushes like a torrent into battle.

Then [my enemies] said, “Come and let us work out schemes against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest [as Jeremiah predicts], nor the counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with our tongue [by making charges against him before the king], and let us ignore anything he says.”

“But who [among them] has stood in the council of the LORD,

That he would perceive and hear His word?

Who has marked His word [noticing and observing and paying attention to it] and has [actually] heard it?

Hear this and pay close attention, O priests!

Give heed, O house of Israel!

Listen, O house of the king!

For the [pronounced] judgment pertains to you and is meant for you to hear,

Because you have been a snare at Mizpah

And a net spread out over Tabor (military strongholds on either side of the Jordan River).

Hear, O peoples, all of you;

Listen closely, O earth and all that is in it,

And let the Lord GOD be witness [giving a testimony of the judgment] against you,

The Lord from His holy temple [in the heavens].

Then those who feared the LORD [with awe-filled reverence] spoke to one another; and the LORD paid attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him of those who fear the LORD [with an attitude of reverence and respect] and who esteem His name.