21 Bible Verses about Ears

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

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

“You are My witnesses”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and My servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe Me
and understand that I am He.
No god was formed before Me,
and there will be none after Me.

A wise correction to a receptive ear
is like a gold ring or an ornament of gold.

One who listens to life-giving rebukes
will be at home among the wise.

his master is to bring him to the judges and then bring him to the door or doorpost. His master must pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve his master for life.

take an awl and pierce through his ear into the door, and he will become your slave for life. Also treat your female slave the same way.

Time and time again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: Turn, each one from his evil way of life, and correct your actions. Stop following other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. But you would not pay attention or obey Me.

Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on his sons’ right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.

Moses slaughtered it, took some of its blood, and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

“But your eyes are blessed because they do see, and your ears because they do hear!

He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”

They have venom like the venom of a snake,
like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.

Dull the minds of these people;
deafen their ears and blind their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their minds,
turn back, and be healed.

For this people’s heart has grown callous;
their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn back—
and I would cure them.

I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful tiara on your head.

And I will punish her for the days of the Baals
when she burned incense to them,
put on her rings and jewelry,
and went after her lovers,
but forgot Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

Who can I speak to and give such a warning
that they will listen?
Look, their ear is uncircumcised,
so they cannot pay attention.
See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them—
they find no pleasure in it.

He opens their ears to correction
and insists they repent from iniquity.

He uncovers their ears at that time
and terrifies them with warnings,

Look, my eyes have seen all this;
my ears have heard and understood it.

When they heard me, they blessed me,
and when they saw me, they spoke well of me.

All things are wearisome;
man is unable to speak.
The eye is not satisfied by seeing
or the ear filled with hearing.

The priest is to take some of the blood from the restitution offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

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

The hearing ear and the seeing eye—
the Lord made them both.

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor
will himself also call out and not be answered.

Anyone who turns his ear away from hearing the law—
even his prayer is detestable.

For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new.

Now hear the word of the Lord, you women.
Pay attention to the word of His mouth.
Teach your daughters a lament
and one another a dirge,

My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
listen closely to my understanding

listening closely to wisdom
and directing your heart to understanding;

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

Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the instruction of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!

Can the One who shaped the ear not hear,
the One who formed the eye not see?

Doesn’t the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?

Hear my words, you wise men, and listen to me, you knowledgeable ones. Doesn't the ear test words as the palate tastes food?