'Give Ear' in the Bible
Then said Lamech to his wives, Adah and Zillah! hear ye my voice, Ye wives of Lamech! give ear to my tale, For a man, have I slain in dealing my wounds, Yea, a youth, in smiting my blows:
And he said: If thou, wilt indeed hearken, to the voice of Yahweh thy God, And the thing that is right in his eyes, thou wilt do, And so give ear to his commandments, And keep all his statutes, None of the sicknesses which I laid on the Egyptians, will I lay upon thee, For, I, am Yahweh, thy physician.
Then took he up his parable and said, - Rise, Balak, and hear, Give ear unto me son of Zippor!
Give ear O ye heavens and I will speak, And let the earth hear the sayings of my mouth:
Hear, ye kings! Give ear, ye princes! I, unto Yahweh, - I, will sing, Will make melody to Yahweh, God of Israel.
And he sent among them prophets, to bring them back unto Yahweh, - and they testified against them, but they would not give ear.
And Yahweh spake unto Manasseh and unto his people, but they did not give ear.
And thou didst suffer many years to pass over them, and didst testify against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets, yet did they not give ear, - therefore didst thou deliver them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Hear, ye wise men, my words, and, ye who know, give ear unto me;
To my words, give ear, O Yahweh, Understand thou my softly murmured prayer:
Hear, O Yahweh, the right, Attend to my loud cry, Give ear unto my prayer, on lips that would not deceive:
Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, And, unto my cry for help, give ear, At my tears, do not be silent, - For, a sojourner, am, I, with thee, A stranger, like all my fathers.
Hear ye, this all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of this passing world;
O God! Hear my prayer, Give ear to the sayings of my mouth;
Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And do not hide thyself from my supplication:
With my voice - unto God, will I make outcry, With my voice unto God, and he will give ear unto me;
Give ear, O my people, to mine instruction, Bend your ear to the sayings of my mouth;
O Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Thou who leddest forth Joseph like a rock, Thou who art throned on the cherubim, appear!
Give ear, O Yahweh, unto my prayer, And attend unto the voice of my supplications.
I have said unto Yahweh, My GOD, thou art! Give ear, O Yahweh, unto the voice of my supplications.
O Yahweh, I have cried unto thee, Make thou haste to me, Give ear unto my voice, when I cry to thee.
Hear O heavens, And give ear, O earth, for Yahweh, hath spoken: - Sons, have I brought up, and advanced, And, they, have rebelled against me.
Hear the word of Yahweh, ye rulers of Sodom, - Give ear to the instruction of our God, ye people of Gomorrah: -
Rage, O ye peoples, - and be overthrown, And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth, - Gird yourselves and be overthrown, Gird yourselves, and be overthrown:
Give ear, and hear ye my voice, - Hearken, and hear ye my speech: -
Ye women in comfort! arise hear my voice, Ye daughters so confident give ear to my speech: -
Who among you, will give ear to this, - Let him hearken and hear, for an aftertime?
Hearken, ye Coastlands, unto me, And give ear ye peoples afar off, - Yahweh, called me, from my birth, From my nativity, made he mention of my name;
Attend unto me, O my people, And, O, my nation unto me give ear, - For, instruction, from me, shall go forth, And, my justice - for a light of peoples, will I establish:
Hear ye and give ear, be not haughty, - For Yahweh, hath spoken.
Then said they, - Come ye and let us devise against Jeremiah devices, For the law shall not perish from the priest, Nor, counsel, from the wise, Nor, the word from the prophet: Come and let as smite him with the tongue, And let us not give ear to any of his words!
Hear ye this - O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, and ye, House of the King, give ear, for, to you, pertaineth the sentence, - for, a snare, have ye been to Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
Hear this, ye elders, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land, - hath this ever happened in your days? or in the days of your fathers?
But, the men, marveled, saying, Whence is this one, - that, both the winds and the sea, unto him, give ear?
And they were caused to fear a great fear, and were saying one to another - Who then is, this, that, both the wind and the sea, give ear unto him?
But, taking his stand, Peter with the eleven lifted up his voice, and sounded out unto them - Ye men of Judaea, and all ye who are sojourning in Jerusalem! Let, this, unto you be known, and give ear unto my declarations; -