'Eyes' in the Bible

And the he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.

O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.

And lifting up my eyes I saw the form of a man clothed in a linen robe, and round him there was a band of gold, of the best gold:

And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.

And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.

I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:

And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.

Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:

And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.

See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.

And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.

Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.

At that time I will make you come in, at that time I will get you together: for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I let your fate be changed before your eyes, says the Lord.

Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?

And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.

And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.

For see, the stone which I have put before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: see, the design cut on it will be my work, says the Lord of armies, and I will take away the sin of that land in one day.

For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.

Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air.

And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.

And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and heaven.

And again lifting up my eyes I saw four war-carriages coming out from between the two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

In that day, says the Lord, I will put fear into every horse and make every horseman go off his head: and my eyes will be open on the people of Judah, and I will make every horse of the peoples blind.

And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.

See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.

And your eyes will see it; and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel.

You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

Then he put his hand on their eyes, saying, As your faith is, let it be done to you.

And their eyes were made open. And Jesus said to them sharply, Let no man have knowledge of it.

Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

And he would have put him to death, but for his fear of the people, because in their eyes John was a prophet.

And Moses and Elijah came before their eyes, talking with him.

And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, but Jesus only.

And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.

They say to him, Lord, that our eyes may be open.

And Jesus, being moved with pity, put his fingers on their eyes: and straight away they were able to see, and went after him.

Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

And though they had a desire to take him, they were in fear of the people, because in their eyes he was a prophet.

And he came again and saw them sleeping, for their eyes were tired.

Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

And he took the blind man by the hand, and went with him out of the town; and when he had put water from his mouth on his eyes, and put his hands on him, he said, Do you see anything?

Then again he put his hands on his eyes; and looking hard, he was able to see, and saw all things clearly.

And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell,

This was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.

And again he came and saw them sleeping, because their eyes were very tired; and they had nothing to say in answer.

They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.

For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

After that time, Elisabeth, being certain that she was to become a mother, kept herself from men's eyes for five months, saying,

The Lord has done this to me, for his eyes were on me, to take away my shame in the eyes of men.

And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

For my eyes have seen your salvation,

And shutting the book he gave it back to the servant and took his seat: and the eyes of all in the Synagogue were fixed on him.

And turning his eyes to his disciples he said, Happy are you who are poor: for the kingdom of God is yours.

At that time, he made a number of people free from their diseases and their pains, and from evil spirits; and to others who were blind he gave back the use of their eyes.

And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.

And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair.

In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.

And, turning to the disciples, he said privately, Happy are the eyes which see the things you see:

So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

But when you come, go and take the lowest seat, so that when the giver of the feast comes, he may say to you, Friend, come up higher; and then you will have honour in the eyes of all the others who are there.

I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:

And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.

And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.

The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.

And, covering his eyes, they said to him, Are you prophet enough to say who gave you that blow?

But their eyes were not open that they might have knowledge of him.

And then their eyes were open, and they had knowledge of him, but he went from their view.

And before their eyes he took a meal.

Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?

Having said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's eyes,

So they said to him, How then were your eyes made open?

His answer was: The man who is named Jesus put earth mixed with water on my eyes, and said to me, Go and make yourself clean in Siloam: so I went away and, after washing, am now able to see.

Now the day on which the earth was mixed by Jesus and the man's eyes were made open was the Sabbath.

So the Pharisees put more questions to him about how his eyes had been made open. And he said to them, He put earth on my eyes, and I had a wash and am able to see.

Again they said to the blind man, What have you to say about him for opening your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

Now the Jews had no belief in the statement that he had been blind and was now able to see, till they sent for the father and mother of the man whose eyes had been made open,

But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.

Then they said to him, What did he do to you? how did he give you the use of your eyes?

The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.

In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.

But some of them said, This man, who made open the eyes of the blind man, was he not able to keep his friend from death?

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

Then the eyes of the disciples were turned on one another, in doubt as to whom he had in mind.

Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:

And Peter, looking at him, with John, said, Keep your eyes on us.

But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God: