'Attention' in the Bible

Pay attention to your covenant, for the dark regions of the earth are full of violence.

For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of Asaph. I will cry out to God and call for help! I will cry out to God and he will pay attention to me.

A well-written song by Asaph. Pay attention, my people, to my instruction! Listen to the words I speak!

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a psalm of Asaph. O shepherd of Israel, pay attention, you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep! You who sit enthroned above the winged angels, reveal your splendor!

Please return, O God [of] hosts. Observe from heaven and see, and pay attention to this vine,

O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my plea for mercy!

Listen to my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!

O Lord, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?

They say, “The Lord doesn’t see it.The God of Jacob doesn’t pay attention.”

Pay attention, you stupid people!Fools, when will you be wise?

I will pay attention to the way of integrity.When will You come to me?I will live with a heart of integrity in my house.

The prayer of an oppressed man, as he grows faint and pours out his lament before the Lord. O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!

He will pay attention to the prayer of the destituteand will not despise their prayer.

Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,

Let whoever is wise pay attention to these thingsand consider the Lord’s acts of faithful love.

For me [the] wicked [lie in] wait to destroy me. I give attention to your testimonies.

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

A song of ascents. Attention! Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who serve in the Lord's temple during the night.

Though the LORD is highly exalted, yet he pays attention to those who are lowly regarded, but he is aware of the arrogant from afar.

I say to the Lord, "You are my God." O Lord, pay attention to my plea for mercy!

A psalm of David. O Lord, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me! Pay attention to me when I cry out to you!

Pay attention to my cry, for I have been brought very low. Deliver me from my tormentors, for they are far too strong for me.

LORD, hear my prayer; pay attention to my request, because you are faithful; answer me in your righteousness.

Since I called out and you refused,extended my hand and no one paid attention,

So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

Listen, my sons, to a father’s discipline,and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,

My son, pay attention to my words;listen closely to my sayings.

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

I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

Now, my sons, listen to me,and pay attention to the words of my mouth.

He who gives attention to the word will find good,And blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.

A wicked person listens to malicious talk;a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

Listen closely, pay attention to the words of the wise,and apply your mind to my knowledge.

Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;stop giving your attention to it.

Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.

Know well the condition of your flock,and pay attention to your herds,

He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.

The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.

If a ruler pays attention to falsehood,All his ministers become wicked.

A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.

She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer pays attention to warnings.

Don’t pay attention to everything people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you,

Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth,for the Lord has spoken:“I have raised children and brought them up,but they have rebelled against Me.

"Listen to what the LORD says, you rulers of Sodom, and pay attention to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

When I turn my attention to you, I'll refine your dross as in a furnace. I'll remove all your alloy.

Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;But they do not pay attention to the deeds of the Lord,Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

So Isaiah replied, "Pay attention, family of David. Do you consider it too insignificant to try the patience of men? Is that why you are also trying the patience of my God?

Band together, peoples, and be broken;pay attention, all you distant lands;prepare for war, and be broken;prepare for war, and be broken.

Cry aloud, you daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laish! Poor Anathoth!

For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.

All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.

When he sees riders—pairs of horsemen,riders on donkeys,riders on camels—he must pay close attention.”

At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the typical life span of a king. At the end of seventy years Tyre will try to attract attention again, like the prostitute in the popular song:

Listen and hear my voice.Pay attention and hear what I say.

Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.

Stand up, you complacent women;listen to me.Pay attention to what I say,you overconfident daughters.

You nations, come here and listen;you peoples, pay attention!Let the earth hear, and all that fills it,the world and all that comes from it.

Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?

Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!

Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

I will do this so people will observe and recognize, so they will pay attention and understand that the Lord's power has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has brought it into being."

Let them bring them forward, and declare to us what shall happen: shew the former things, what they are, that we may give attention to them, and know the end of them; or let us hear things to come:

You've seen many things, but you pay no attention. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.

Who among you will pay attention to this?Let him listen and obey in the future.

So He poured out on Jacob His furious angerand the power of war.It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;it burned him, but he paid no attention.

“Do not remember the past events,pay no attention to things of old.

They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.

If only you had paid attention to My commands.Then your peace would have been like a river,and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Coastlands, listen to me;distant peoples, pay attention.The Lord called me before I was born.He named me while I was in my mother’s womb.

Pay attention to Me, My people,and listen to Me, My nation;for instruction will come from Me,and My justice for a light to the nations.I will bring it about quickly.

so he shall sprinkle many nations; because of him, kings shall shut their mouths. For they shall see what has not been told them, and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.

He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him.

Pay attention and come to Me;listen, so that you will live.I will make an everlasting covenant with you,the promises assured to David.

They lament, 'Why don't you notice when we fast? Why don't you pay attention when we humble ourselves?' Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires, you oppress your workers.

For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

"Indeed, go over to the coasts of Cyprus and see, send to Kedar and pay very close attention. See if there has ever been such a thing as this!

Evil generation,pay attention to the word of the Lord!Have I been a wilderness to Israelor a land of dense darkness?Why do My people claim,“We will go where we want;we will no longer come to You”?

Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.

As a well gushes out its water,so she pours out her evil.Violence and destruction resound in her.Sickness and wounds keep coming to My attention.

Who can I speak to and give such a warningthat 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.

The Lord said, "I appointed prophets as watchmen to warn you, saying: 'Pay attention to the warning sound of the trumpet!'" But they said, "We will not pay attention!"

Listen, earth!I am about to bring disaster on these people,the fruit of their own plotting,for they have paid no attention to My word.They have rejected My instruction.

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.

However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.

I have paid careful attention.They do not speak what is right.No one regrets his evil,asking, ‘What have I done?’Everyone has stayed his courselike a horse rushing into battle.

Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the Lord, require of them.

The Lord says, "These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.

They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me," says the Lord.

And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

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

Yet they would not obey or pay attention; each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant, because they had not done what I commanded them to do.”

Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud,for the Lord has spoken.

But if you will not pay attention to this warning, I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride. I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears because you, the Lord's flock, will be carried into exile."

You are aware LORD, remember me, pay attention to me, and vindicate me in front of those who pursue me. You are patient don't take me away. Know that I suffer insult because of you!

They wouldn’t listen or pay attention but became obstinate, not listening or accepting discipline.

Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”

Pay attention to me, Lord.Hear what my opponents are saying!