'Voice' in the Bible

Whenthey heard the voice of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden during the breeze of the day, the man and his wife concealed themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

"I heard your voice in the garden," the man answered, "and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid from you."

God heard the boy's voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven. He asked her, "What's wrong with you, Hagar? Don't be afraid, because God has heard the voice of the youth where he is.

So Jacob approached his father, who felt him and said, "It's Jacob's voice, but Esau's hands."

Then Esau implored his father, "Don't you have even one blessing for me, my father? Bless me, even me too, my father!" Then Esau lifted his voice and wept bitterly.

Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me! He has heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore, she named him Dan.

Then Moses came and reported all the words of the LORD and all the statutes to the people, and they all answered with one voice, "We will do everything that the LORD has decreed."

When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the L ORD, he heard a voice speaking to him above the Mercy Seat over the Ark of the Testimony. He spoke to him from between the two cherubim.

none of those men who saw my glory and watched my miracles that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness even though they've tested me these ten times and never listened to my voice

Then we cried to the LORD and he heard our voice, sending us a messenger who brought us out of Egypt. Now look! We've arrived in Kadesh, a city at the extreme end of your territory.

You returned and cried out in the LORD's presence, but the LORD didn't hear your voice or listen to you.

the LORD your God spoke from the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but you saw no form; there was only a voice.

In your distress, when all these things happen to you in days to come and you return to the LORD your God, then you will hear his voice.

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of a fire just as you did, and survived it?

You have been made to hear his voice from heaven so you may be instructed. And he showed you his great fire here on earth, and you heard his voice from the middle of that fire.

"The LORD declared these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly on the mountain from out of the fire and dark clouds, and nothing more was added. He inscribed them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

When you heard the voice from the darkness while the mountain was blazing, all the leaders and elders of your tribes came to me and said:

Now therefore, why should we die? This great fire will consume us. If we continue to listen to the voice of the LORD our God any longer, we'll die.

For what mortal man has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire like we did, and lived?

Just like the nations whom the LORD destroyed before you, so will you be destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God."

When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea and told you, "Go possess the land that I gave you,' instead you disobeyed what the LORD your God said. You didn't trust him or listen to his voice.

You must follow the LORD your God, fear him, observe his commandments, listen to his voice, serve him, and cling to him.

if you obey the voice of the LORD your God by observing all his commands that I'm commanding you today. Do what is right in the sight of the LORD your God."

Only be certain to obey the voice of the LORD your God. Carefully observe all of these commands that I'm commanding to you today.

because this is what you asked from the LORD your God at Horeb when you were assembled together: "Don't let us hear the voice of the LORD our God again, or even see this great fire otherwise, we will die.'

"I've removed the holy offering from my house and given it to the descendants of Levi, to the foreigners, to the orphans, and to the widows just as you have commanded me. I haven't violated or forgotten your commands. I haven't eaten any part of it while mourning, nor removed any part of it while unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I've obeyed the voice of the LORD my God and did all that he commanded me.

You have declared this very day that the LORD will be your God. You are to walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commands, and judgments, and obey his voice.

Listen to his voice and carry out his commands and statutes that I'm giving you today."

The descendants of Levi are to declare in a loud voice to every Israeli:

Love the LORD your God, obey his voice, and cling to him, because he is your life even your long life so that you may live in the land that the LORD promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

He declared this about Judah: "Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah and return him to his people. With his own strength he fights for himself, and you will be of assistance against his enemies."

The Israelis traveled 40 years in the wilderness until the entire nation that is, the warriors who had departed from Egypt had perished because they hadn't listened to the voice of the LORD. The LORD had promised them that he would not let them see the land that he had sworn to give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

Joshua issued orders to the army: "You are not to shout or even let your voice be heard. Don't utter a word until I tell you to shout. Then shout!"

There has never been a day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD was fighting on behalf of Israel.

The people replied, "We will serve the LORD our God and obey his voice."

As they approached Micah's home, they recognized the voice of the young male descendant of Levi. They turned aside from there and spoke to him, asking him, "Who brought you here? What work are you doing here? And what's your business here?"

Hannah was praying inwardly. Her lips were quivering, and her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk.

When David had finished saying these things to Saul, Saul asked, "Is this your voice, my son David?" Then Saul cried loudly

Saul recognized David's voice and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?"

David replied, "It is my voice, your majesty." David said, "Why is your majesty pursuing his servant? For what have I done, and what evil do I bear toward you?

I'm now 80 years old! I can hardly tell the difference between what tastes good or bad! I can't tell what I eat or drink! I can't hear the voice of men and women when they sing! So why should your servant be an added burden to your majesty the king?

I cried out to the LORD in the middle of my troubles; I cried out to my God. He listened to my voice from his sanctuary, and my call for help was heard.

The LORD roared from heaven! The Most High let his voice be heard!

stood up, and blessed all of the assembly of Israel in a loud voice. He said:

As soon as Elijah heard it, he covered his face in his mantle, went outside, and stood at the entrance to the cave. And there a voice spoke to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

so he told him, "Because you haven't obeyed the LORD's voice, as soon as you leave here, a lion will kill you." As soon as the man left, a lion found him and killed him.

because they would not obey the voice of the LORD their God. Instead, they transgressed his covenant, including everything that Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded, by neither listening nor putting what he had commanded into practice.

Who are you reproaching and blaspheming? Against whom have you raised your voice? And against whom have you lifted up your eyes in arrogance? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Descendants of Levi from the descendants of Kohath and from the descendants of Korah stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel in a very loud voice that ascended to heaven.

Now a number of the priests, the Levities, and the leading officials of the elders who were very elderly had seen the former Temple with their own eyes. When they observed the foundation of the Temple being laid, they wept with a loud voice, while the rest of them shouted for joy.

In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won't hear the voice of oppressors.

It remained standing, but I couldn't recognize its appearance. A form appeared before my eyes; At first there was silence, and then this voice:

Listen carefully to his thundering voice; to the sound that rumbles from his mouth.

His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard.

"God thunders with his wondrous voice; he does awesome works that we don't comprehend.

LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice; in the morning I will pray to you, and I will watch for your answer.

In my distress I cried to the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his Temple he heard my voice; my cry reached his ears.

There is no speech nor are there words their voice is not heard

Hear my voice, LORD, when I cry out! Be gracious to me and answer me.

The voice of the LORD was heard above the waters; the God of glory thundered; the LORD was heard over many waters.

The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

The voice of the LORD snaps the cedars; the LORD snaps the cedars of Lebanon.

The voice of the LORD shoots out flashes of fire.

The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

The voice of the LORD causes deer to give birth, and strips the forest bare. In his Temple all of them shout, "Glory!"

When I said in my panic, "I have been cut off in your sight," then you surely heard the voice of my prayer in my plea to you for help.

because of the voice of the one who mocks and reviles, because of the enemy and the avenger.

The nations roared; the kingdoms were shaken. His voice boomed; the earth melts.

because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the wicked. They bring down evil upon me, and in anger they hate me.

Morning, noon, and night, I mulled over these things and cried out in my distress, and he heard my voice.

refusing to hear the voice of the snake charmer, the cunning enchanter.

to the one who rides the heavens, the ancient heavens. Behold! He thunders with a mighty voice.

Yet my people didn't obey my voice; Israel didn't submit to me.

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the flock in his care. If only you would listen to his voice today,

They murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to the voice of the LORD.

Hear my voice according to your gracious love. LORD, revive me in keeping with your justice.

Lord, listen to my voice; let your ears pay attention to what I ask of you!

So I say to the LORD, "You are my God; listen to my voice as I plead for mercy, LORD.

My voice cries out to the LORD; my voice pleads for mercy to the LORD.

Wisdom cries out in the street; she raises her voice in the public squares.

if, indeed, you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

Isn't wisdom calling out; isn't understanding raising her voice?

The voice of my beloved! Look! He's coming, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

My dove, in the hidden places of the rocks, in the secret places of the cliffs, show me your form, and let me hear your voice. For your voice is pleasant, and your shape is lovely.

You who sit in the gardens, companions are listening for your voice, but let me hear it.

Then I heard the voice of the LORD as he was asking, "Whom will I send? Who will go for us?" "Here I am!" I replied. "Send me."

and you will be brought down. You will speak from the ground, and your speech will mumble from the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the ground, and your speech will whisper from the dust.

And the LORD will make heard yes, he will make heard his majestic voice, and make his arm seen descending in raging anger and in a flame of consuming fire, with a cloudburst, thunderstorm and hailstones.

Indeed, the Assyrians will be shattered at the LORD's voice, when he strikes them with his scepter.

"As for you ladies of leisure Get up and listen to my voice! You daughters who feel so complacent hear what I have to say!

At the thunder of your voice, the nations flee; at your silence, the nations scatter.

Whom have you insulted and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

A voice cries out: "In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD; and in the desert a straight highway for our God.'

A voice says, "Cry out!" So I asked, "What am I to cry out?" "All humanity is grass, and all its loyalty is like the flowers of the field.

"Climb up a high mountain, you messenger of good news to Zion! Lift up your voice with strength, you messenger to Jerusalem! Lift it up! Don't be afraid! Say to the towns of Judah, "Here is your God!'

He won't shout, or raise his voice, or make it heard in the street.

Who among you fears the LORD, obeying the voice of his servant, who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.

"Shout aloud! Don't hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their rebellions, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

"Look! You fast only for quarreling, and for fighting, and for hitting with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice heard on high.

"A voice is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the children of Israel because they have perverted their way. They have forgotten the LORD their God."