'Eye' in the Bible

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

or a hunchback or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye or eczema or scabs or crushed testicles.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.

and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O Lord, are in the midst of this people, for You, O Lord, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

He took up his discourse and said,“The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,And the oracle of the man whose eye is opened;

He took up his discourse and said,“The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,And the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.

Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the Lord against you, and it will be a sin in you.

Thus you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

“He found him in a desert land,And in the howling waste of a wilderness;He encircled him, He cared for him,He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “I will make it with you on this condition, that I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you, thus I will make it a reproach on all Israel.”

Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report could come to Darius, and then a written reply be returned concerning it.

“Remember that my life is but breath;My eye will not again see good.

“The eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer;Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

“Behold, my eye has seen all this,My ear has heard and understood it.

“My friends are my scoffers;My eye weeps to God.

“Surely mockers are with me,And my eye gazes on their provocation.

“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,And all my members are as a shadow.

“The eye which saw him sees him no longer,And his place no longer beholds him.

“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’And he disguises his face.

“The path no bird of prey knows,Nor has the falcon’s eye caught sight of it.

“He hews out channels through the rocks,And his eye sees anything precious.

“For when the ear heard, it called me blessed,And when the eye saw, it gave witness of me,

“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;But now my eye sees You;

My eye has wasted away with grief;It has become old because of all my adversaries.

Keep me as the apple of the eye;Hide me in the shadow of Your wings

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,On those who hope for His lovingkindness,

For He has delivered me from all trouble,And my eye has looked with satisfaction upon my enemies.

Their eye bulges from fatness;The imaginations of their heart run riot.

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;I have called upon You every day, O Lord;I have spread out my hands to You.

And my eye has looked exultantly upon my foes,My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.

He who planted the ear, does He not hear?He who formed the eye, does He not see?

Keep my commandments and live,And my teaching as the apple of your eye.

He who winks the eye causes trouble,And a babbling fool will be ruined.

The hearing ear and the seeing eye,The Lord has made both of them.

A man with an evil eye hastens after wealthAnd does not know that want will come upon him.

The eye that mocks a fatherAnd scorns a mother,The ravens of the valley will pick it out,And the young eagles will eat it.

All things are wearisome;Man is not able to tell it.The eye is not satisfied with seeing,Nor is the ear filled with hearing.

And their bows will mow down the young men,They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,Nor will their eye pity children.

For from days of old they have not heard or perceived by ear,Nor has the eye seen a God besides You,Who acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.

and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;

You will not escape from his hand, for you will surely be captured and delivered into his hand; and you will see the king of Babylon eye to eye, and he will speak with you face to face, and you will go to Babylon.’”’

He has bent His bow like an enemy;He has set His right hand like an adversaryAnd slain all that were pleasant to the eye;In the tent of the daughter of ZionHe has poured out His wrath like fire.

So as I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare.

For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the Lord!’

My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the Lord, do the smiting.

Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”

But to the others He said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.

But as for Me, My eye will have no pity nor will I spare, but I will bring their conduct upon their heads.”

No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born.

Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not cause their annihilation in the wilderness.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.

“Woe to the worthless shepherdWho leaves the flock!A sword will be on his armAnd on his right eye!His arm will be totally witheredAnd his right eye will be blind.”

If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’

“The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye?

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.

Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’

If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell,

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.

but just as it is written,“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,And which have not entered the heart of man,All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.