'Ears' in the Bible

Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death by the sword.

So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah, for it had come to his ears that he had gone away from Lachish.

No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse; and will you be kept safe?

Incline your ears and hear; open, O Yahweh, your eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to insult the living God.

Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer which you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears,

And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

'And now, before the eyes of all Israel, the assembly of Jehovah, and in the ears of our God, keep and seek all the commands of Jehovah your God, so that ye possess this good land, and have caused your sons to inherit after you unto the age.

Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

let Your eyes be open and Your ears be attentive to hear Your servant’s prayer that I now pray to You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins we have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

And when it came to the ears of those who were against us, that we had knowledge of their designs and that God had made their purpose come to nothing, we all went back to the wall, everyone to his work

And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;

And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

On that day there was read in the book of Moses, in the ears of the people, and it hath been found written in it that an Ammonite and Moabite doth not come into the assembly of God -- unto the age,

For news of what the queen has done will come to the ears of all women, and they will no longer give respect to their husbands when it is said to them, King Ahasuerus gave orders for Vashti the queen to come before him and she came not.

There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.

A word was brought to me in secret;my ears caught a whisper of it.

Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying:

See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.

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

Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:

Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,

So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

He opens their ears to correctionand insists they repent from iniquity.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.

I've heard you with my ears; and now I've seen you with my eyes.

Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled:

Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.

False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.} We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.

In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

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

Let my cry come to you, O God; let your ears be open to my prayer.

Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:

For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.

{Maschil of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

So these things came to the Lord's ears, and he was angry; and a fire was lighted against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel;

When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely;

He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.

Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

But when their cry came to his ears, he had pity on their trouble:

They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.

All the kings of the earth will give you praise, O Lord, when the words of your mouth come to their ears.

Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

The mind of a discerning person gains knowledge, while the ears of wise people seek out knowledge.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

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In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.

And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.

And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

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

Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.