Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth’s surface had gone down,

but the dove found no resting place for her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought her into the ark to himself.

So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again.

When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down.

After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again.

Yahweh said to him, “Who made the human mouth? Who makes him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?

You must not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you are to fear your God; I am Yahweh.

So there was a great famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 80 silver shekels, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five silver shekels.

Davidic.Lord, I call to You;
my rock, do not be deaf to me.
If You remain silent to me,
I will be like those going down to the Pit.

I am like a deaf person; I do not hear.
I am like a speechless person
who does not open his mouth.

I said, “If only I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and find rest.

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

While you lie among the sheepfolds,
the wings of a dove are covered with silver,
and its feathers with glistening gold.

Do not give the life of Your dove to beasts;
do not forget the lives of Your poor people forever.

A song. A psalm of Asaph.God, do not keep silent.
Do not be deaf, God; do not be idle.

My dove, in the clefts of the rock,
in the crevices of the cliff,
let me see your face,
let me hear your voice;
for your voice is sweet,
and your face is lovely.

W I sleep, but my heart is awake.
A sound! My love is knocking!

M Open to me, my sister, my darling,
my dove, my perfect one.
For my head is drenched with dew,
my hair with droplets of the night.

But my dove, my virtuous one, is unique;
she is the favorite of her mother,
perfect to the one who gave her birth.
Women see her and declare her fortunate;
queens and concubines also, and they sing her praises:

On that day the deaf will hear
the words of a document,
and out of a deep darkness
the eyes of the blind will see.

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

I chirp like a swallow or a crane;
I moan like a dove.
My eyes grow weak looking upward.
Lord, I am oppressed; support me.

“Listen, you deaf!
Look, you blind, so that you may see.

Who is blind but My servant,
or deaf like My messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like My dedicated one,
or blind like the servant of the Lord?

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

Indeed, the Lord’s hand is not too short to save,
and His ear is not too deaf to hear.

Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs,
residents of Moab!
Be like a dove
that nests inside the mouth of a cave.

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove;
they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.

Nations will see and be ashamed
of all their power.
They will put their hands over their mouths,
and their ears will become deaf.

After Jesus was baptized, He went up immediately from the water. The heavens suddenly opened for Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on Him.

the blind see, the lame walk, those with skin diseases are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news.

As soon as He came up out of the water, He saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending to Him like a dove.

They brought to Him a deaf man who also had a speech difficulty, and begged Jesus to lay His hand on him.

They were extremely astonished and said, “He has done everything well! He even makes deaf people hear, and people unable to speak, talk!”

When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly coming together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!”

and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a physical appearance like a dove. And a voice came from heaven:

You are My beloved Son.
I take delight in You!

He replied to them, “Go and report to John the things you have seen and heard: The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with skin diseases are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news.

because I was afraid of you, for you’re a tough man: you collect what you didn’t deposit and reap what you didn’t sow.’

“He told him, ‘I will judge you by what you have said, you evil slave! If you knew I was a tough man, collecting what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow,

And John testified, “I watched the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He rested on Him.