Hear

Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

…let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

Wherever you hear the sound of the horn, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us!”

Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”

Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.

You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.

Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.

“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

“Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.

If you have understanding, hear this; listen to my words.

Men of understanding will declare to me, and the wise men who hear me will say:

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.

In the morning, O LORD, You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my plea before You and wait in expectation.

A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer—it comes from lips free of deceit.

I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.

When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.

Hear, O LORD, my voice when I call; be merciful and answer me.

Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Hear me, O LORD, and have mercy; O LORD, be my helper.”

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

My soul boasts in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.

But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.

I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.

God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

…refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.

See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!

O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and attend to my plea for mercy.

My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.

He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?

For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.

…to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

…they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;

Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.

O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

…they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.

All the kings of the earth will give You thanks, O LORD, when they hear the words of Your mouth.

I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.

A Psalm of David. I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.

A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.

Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.

If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Ears that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both.

Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise—apply your mind to my knowledge—

Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.

O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.

You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?

And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.

And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.

From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.

For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.

Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.

On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.

Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts:

Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”

So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.

But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.

Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”

Hear the uproar from the city; listen to the voice from the temple! It is the voice of the LORD, repaying His enemies what they deserve!

Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.

How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.