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May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.

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?

Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.

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

Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.

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.

…if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.

The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.

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

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.

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

Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.

Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.

Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.

Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

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.”

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,

The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.

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.

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to 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 all 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.’

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

Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.

You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

The Lord GOD has opened My ears, and I have not been rebellious, nor have I turned back.

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.

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

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

“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.

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”