31 occurrences

'Ears' in the Bible

Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

Verse ConceptsConvincingHardened HeartsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedRepentance, Importance OfSpiritual DeafnessShutting SecurelyDefective VisionBeing Without UnderstandingFeelingNo HealingUnhearing

And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfLeaders, PoliticalSpirit Of ChristAppearancesChrist JudgingMaking DecisionsFearing Godrumors

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.

Verse ConceptsAgony, Of BodyBodyPunishment, Nature OfLabour Pains

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.

Verse ConceptsDeafnessDarkness, Deliverance FromEyes, Used In PropheciesThe Deaf HearingHealing Of The Blind

And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

Verse ConceptsGuardiansGuidance, God's Promises OfOrthodoxy, In OtHoly Spirit, Types OfChanging DirectionLearning The Right WayThe Faculty Of HearingForksguidance

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.

Verse ConceptsRumoursSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfKilling Will Happenrumors

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 the king of Assyria 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 from their fate?

Verse ConceptsBad NewsNot SparingPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer 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.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises OfHistoryDestruction Of CitiesHearing About GodGod Planning Of OldGod's Plans

Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

Verse ConceptsTumultHorsesNoses

Go to Hezekiah, and say, 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 give you fifteen more years of life.

Verse ConceptsAdding Blessing15 To 20 YearsGod Answered PrayerGod Paid Attention To MeRecoveryIllnesshealthcare

Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

Verse ConceptsBeginningUnderstandingHearing About GodFrom The Beginninga new beginningpotential

He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.

Verse ConceptsVoicesJesus Christ, Meekness OfProphecies Concerning ChristSpirit Of ChristChrist Being SilentMessianic Prophecies

Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.

Verse ConceptsDeafnessThe Deaf HearingHealing Of The BlindBlindnessListening To God

Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?

Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.

Verse ConceptsIndifferenceRefusing To HearBeing Without UnderstandingListening To Godattention

Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.

Verse ConceptsUnhearing

All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.

Verse ConceptsIgnorant Of Facts

They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.

Verse ConceptsNow

Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelTreacheryFrom Birth

The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.

Verse Conceptsspace

So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.

Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelSprinklingTributesUnderstandingMarvellingShutting SecurelyProper Understanding

If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.

Verse ConceptsArguingethics, incentives towardsQuarrelsHow To FastPointless FastingFighting One AnotherFastingFasting And Prayer

While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.

Verse ConceptsMountains QuakingGod Going DownLack Of Expectation

When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.

Verse ConceptsDevelopmentUnique Eventsrebirth

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