'Look' in the Bible

"Just as you did with my father David, sending him cedars to build him a palace to live in, do the same for me. Look, I'm building a temple dedicated to the name of the LORD my God, to his glory, so we can burn fragrant incense in his presence, display rows of the bread of his presence continuously, and make burnt offerings in the morning, evening, on Sabbath days, during New Moon festivals, and during appointed festivals scheduled by the LORD our God. This is mandated forever in Israel.

"Now look! I will pay your servants, the lumberjacks who prepare the timber, 20,000 measures of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil."

and yet, will God truly reside on earth with human beings? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built!

Let your eyes always look toward this Temple day and night, toward the location where you have said you would place your name. Listen to the prayer that your servant prays in this direction.

When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered the king:What portion do we have in David?We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.Israel, each man to your tent;David, look after your own house now!So all Israel went to their tents.

Look, God and His priests are with us at our head. The trumpets are ready to sound the charge against you. Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed.”

When the army of Judah turned around to look, they were being attacked from both front and rear, so they cried out to the LORD while the priests sounded their trumpets.

“There’s a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you silver and gold. Go break your treaty with Israel’s King Baasha so that he will withdraw from me.”

The messenger who went to call Micaiah instructed him, “Look, the words of the prophets are unanimously favorable for the king. So let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”

So now, look, the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; but the Lord has decreed disaster for you."

Micaiah replied, "Look, you will see in the day when you go into an inner room to hide."

Messengers arrived and reported to Jehoshaphat, "A huge army is attacking you from the other side of the Dead Sea, from the direction of Edom. Look, they are in Hazezon Tamar (that is, En Gedi)."

Now therefore look! The Ammonites, the Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir, whom you would not permit Israel to attack when they arrived from the land of Egypt since they turned away from them and did not eliminate them

Look how they repay us by coming to drive us out of Your possession that You gave us as an inheritance.

Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast number that comes to fight against us. We do not know what to do, but we look to You.

And Judah hath come in unto the watch-tower, to the wilderness, and they look unto the multitude, and lo, they are carcases fallen to the earth, and there is none escaped,

Look what's going to happen! The LORD is going to strike your people, your children, your wives, and everything you own with a massive tragedy.

"Look! The king's son is going to rule, just as the LORD promised David's descendants. So here's what you'll need to do: One third of you priests and descendants of Levi who are on duty during the Sabbath will serve as guards at the temple gates.

Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

And Amaziah king of Judah took counsel, and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.

Come, we look one another in the face.' And Joash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, 'The thorn that is in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that is in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn.

You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and you have become overconfident that you will get glory. Now stay at home. Why stir up such trouble so that you fall and Judah with you?”

and go up doth Joash king of Israel, and they look one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, in Beth-Shemesh, that is Judah's,

A prophet of the Lord named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Look, the Lord God of your ancestors handed them over to you because of His wrath against Judah, but you slaughtered them in a rage that has reached heaven.

Now look! Our ancestors have been killed with swords and our sons, daughters, and wives are being held captive because of all of this.

and all the objects that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he sinned, we have prepared and sanctified. Look, they [are] before the altar of Yahweh."

"Look! I'm going to take you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in your grave in peace so that you won't have to see all the evil that I'm going to bring to this place and to its inhabitants."'" So they all brought back this message to the king.

Guard and look after [them] until you weigh [them] before the chief priests, the Levites, and the heads of the {families} of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chamber of the house of Yahweh."

LORD God of Israel, you are just: As a result, we remain here today delivered. Look at us! Because of our sin, we cannot stand in your presence as a result of everything that has happened."

The king asked me, "Why do you look so troubled, since you're not ill? This cannot be anything else but troubles of the heart."

Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons are like their sons. Look, we are subduing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and there are some from our daughters being molested. {We are powerless}, and our fields and vineyards [belong] to others."

Then I look and realized God had not sent him; rather, he had spoken the prophecy against me [because] Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

"Look! Today we are your servants, along with the land that you gave to our ancestors, so they could enjoy its fruit and its value behold, in it we are your servants!

Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.Remember me for this also, my God, and look on me with compassion in keeping with Your abundant, faithful love.

To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.

For the queen’s conduct will become known to all the women causing them to look with contempt on their husbands by saying, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in to his presence, but she did not come.’

The king's young men told him, "Look, Haman is standing in the courtyard." The king said, "Let him come in."

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, observed, "Look there! A pole is standing 50 cubits high at Haman's house that he prepared for Mordecai, whose report benefitted the king!"

For {how can I bear} to look on the disaster that will find my people, and {how can I bear} to look on the destruction of my family?"

King Ahasuerus said to Esther the Queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.

So Yahweh said to Satan, "Look, {all that belongs to him} is in your {power}. Only do not stretch out your hand {against} him." So Satan went out from Yahweh's {presence}.

Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

Indeed, you have instructed manyand have strengthened weak hands.

Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error.

"Look, happy [is the] human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,

"Look! We have thought all this through, and what we've said is true; So please listen and learn for your own good!"

The caravans of Tema look for these streams.The traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.

Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

The eye of anyone who looks on mewill no longer see me.Your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

Will You ever look away from me,or leave me alone long enough to swallow?

But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

Look, this [is] the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.

Look, God does not reject a person of integrity,and He will not support evildoers.

If it is a matter of strength, look, He is the Mighty One!If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

If I were to say, "Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful,

‘Is it right for You indeed to oppress,To reject the labor of Your hands,And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

Do you have eyes made of flesh? Can you look at things as humans do?

that You look for my wrongdoingand search for my sin,

""Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction!

You will be confident, because there is hope.You will look carefully about and lie down in safety.

But what the wicked look for will fail; their way of escape will be taken away from them; their only hope is to take their final breath."

Look, [if] he withholds the water, then they dry up; and [if] he sends them out, then they overwhelm [the] land.

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

Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.

"Look, now! I've prepared my case for court. I know that I'm going to win.

look away from him and let him restso that he can enjoy his day like a hired hand.

Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them,

So now look, my witness [is] in the heavens, and he [who] vouches for me [is] in the heights.

“If I look for Sheol as my home,I make my bed in the darkness;

"Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I cry out, but there is no justice.

I will see Him myself;my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger.My heart longs within me.

He won't look at the rivers the torrents of honey and curd.

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

Look at me and shudder;put your hand over your mouth.

Look, their prosperity [is] not in their hands; the schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

I know your thoughts very well,the schemes you would wrong me with.

Isn’t God as high as the heavens?And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!

"Look! If I go east, he isn't there! If I go to the west, I don't perceive him.

"Look! Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they work diligently as they seek wild game in the desert, food for them and their young ones.

Look, even [the] moon {is not bright}, and [the] stars are not pure in his sight.

Look, these [are] the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word} [that] we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

Look! All of you have been watching, so why have you become so completely worthless?

For He to the ends of the earth doth look, Under the whole heavens He doth see,

He said to mankind,“The fear of the Lord is this: wisdom.And to turn from evil is understanding.”

I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;when I stand up, You merely look at me.

I have made a covenant with my eyes.How then could I look at a young woman?

“If I have withheld from the poor what they desired,Or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief],

if I look at the sun when it shines or the moon as it rises in steady splendor,

Look, I waited for your conclusions;I listened to your insightsas you sought for words.

And I directed my attention to you; and, look, there is no [one] for Job [who] refuted, answering his words among you.

"Look, my internal organs [are] like unopened wine, like new wineskins it is [ready] to burst open.

Look! I've begun to speak, and I'm fashioning my words.

Look! As far as God is concerned, I'm just like you are I, too, have been pinched off from a piece of clay.

Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you.

Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

"Look, [in] this you are not right--I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.

He will look at men and say,“I have sinned and perverted what was right;yet I did not get what I deserved.

Look, God does all these [things] twice, three times with a person

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.