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She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant.

Abner also spoke to the Benjamites. Then he went to Hebron to tell David all that seemed good to Israel and to the whole house of Benjamin.

How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.

For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.

The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’

In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.

Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

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

Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

…this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.

And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

O LORD, there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.

For You, my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found the courage to pray before You.

So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, keep and seek out all the commandments 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, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people great and small—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

…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.

O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.

Listen carefully to my words; let my declaration ring in your ears.

Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’

For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,

Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:

He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.

He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.

God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.

My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,

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

In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.

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

Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.

The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:

Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.

A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

A prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.