'Eyes' in the Bible

[The] eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due time,

Yahweh opens [the eyes of the] blind; Yahweh raises up [those] bowed down; Yahweh loves [the] righteous;

And you shall find favor and good sense in the eyes of God and humankind.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Yahweh and retreat from evil.

May your eyes look forward and your gaze be straight before you.

For before the eyes of Yahweh [are] {human ways}, and all his paths he examines.

Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Like vinegar to the tooth and like smoke to the eyes, thus [is] the lazy to one who employs him.

The way of a fool is upright in his [own] eyes, but he who listens to advice [is] wise.

In every place, the eyes of Yahweh keep watch over the evil and the good.

From the light of the eyes, the heart will rejoice, and good news will enliven the bones.

All the ways of a man [are] pure in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the spirit.

He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

The bribe [is] a stone of magic in the eyes of its owner; {everywhere} he will turn, he will prosper.

He who understands sets [his] face [toward] wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth.

A king who sits on [the] throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.

Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes [and] have plenty bread.

Every way of a man is upright in his [own] eyes, but Yahweh weighs hearts.

Haughtiness of [the] eyes and pride of heart, [the] lamp of the wicked [are] sin.

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes.

The eyes of Yahweh keep watch over knowledge, but he will overthrow the words of the faithless.

Your eyes will {alight} on it, but there is nothing [to] it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted [in] the heavens.

My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.

To whom [is] woe? To whom [is] sorrow? To whom [are] quarrels? To whom [is] complaint? To whom [are] wounds without cause? To whom [is] redness of [the] eyes?

Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things.

lest Yahweh see and [it] be evil in his eyes, and turn his anger away from him.

For [it is] better [that] he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,

Answer a fool according to his folly, or else he will be wise in his own eyes.

[Do] you see a man wise in his own eyes? [There is more] hope for a fool than for him.

A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly.

Sheol and Abaddon will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied [either].

A man of wealth [is] wise in his own eyes, but the intelligent poor sees through him.

[For] he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking, but [for] he who turns his eyes, [there are] many curses.

The poor and a man of oppression have [this] in common: Yahweh gives {light to the eyes of them both}.

[There is] a generation [that is] pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed.

[There is] a generation--how lofty [are] their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift.

I neither withheld anything from my eyes that they desired, nor did I deprive any pleasure from my heart. My heart rejoiced in all my toil, for this was my reward from all my toil.

For to the person who [is] good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give [it] to [him who is] pleasing to him. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

{Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

I applied my mind to know wisdom and to understand the business that is done on earth--how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep.

The light is sweet, and it [is] pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

Look! You [are] beautiful, my beloved. Look! You [are] beautiful; your eyes [are] doves.

{Oh my}! You [are] beautiful, my beloved! {Oh my}! You [are] beautiful! Your eyes [are] doves from behind your veil. Your hair [is] like a flock of goats that move down from the mountains of Gilead.

You have stolen (my) heart, my sister bride! You have stolen [my] heart with one [glance] from your eyes, with one ornament from your necklaces.

His eyes [are] like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, {set like mounted jewels}.

Turn away your eyes from before me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair [is] like a flock of the goats that moves down from Gilead.

Your neck [is] like a tower of ivory; your eyes [are] pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim. Your nose [is] like the tower of Lebanon {looking out over Damascus}.

And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I [will] not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.

Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!

The {haughty eyes} of humanity will be brought low, and the pride of everyone will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds [are] against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.

And Yahweh said: "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk [with] outstretched neck, and they give flirting glances [with their] eyes, {mincing along as they go}, and {with their feet they rattle their bangles},

And humankind is bowed down, and man is brought low, and [the] eyes of [the] haughty are humiliated.

Ah! [Those who are] wise in their own eyes and have understanding {in their view}!

And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I [am] a man {of unclean lips}, and I [am] living among a people {of unclean lips}, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"

Make the heart of this people insensitive, and make its ears unresponsive, and shut its eyes so that it may not look with its eyes and listen with its ears and comprehend [with] its mind and turn back, and it may be healed [for] him."

And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.

And [their] bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on [the] fruit of [the] womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children.

On that day, mankind will look to its maker, and its eyes will look to the holy one of Israel;

For Yahweh has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and he has covered your heads, the seers.

And on that day, the deaf shall hear [the] words of a scroll, and [the] eyes of [the] blind shall see out of gloom and darkness.

And the Lord will give you [the] bread [of] distress and [the] water [of] oppression, but your teachers will not hide themselves any longer. And your eyes {shall see} your teachers.

And [the] eyes of those who see will not gaze, and [the] ears of those who hear will listen.

He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.

Your eyes will see [the] king in his beauty; they will see a {distant land}.

Look [on] Zion, the city of our appointed festivals! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed settlement, a tent {that is not moved}. No one will ever pull out its tent pegs, and none of its ropes will be torn in two.

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

Yahweh, extend your ear and hear! Yahweh, open your eyes and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to taunt the living God!

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed, and against whom have you raised up [your] voice and lifted your eyes upward? To the holy one of Israel!

and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember how I have walked before your {presence} in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept [with] great weeping.

Like a horse or a crane, so I chirp; I moan like dove. My eyes are weak toward the height. Lord, I have oppression; lend me support!

Lift your eyes up [on] high, and see! Who created these? The one who brings out their host by number. He calls all them by name. Because [he is] great of power and mighty of power, no man is missing.

to open [the] blind eyes, to bring [the] prisoner out from [the] dungeon, those who sit [in] darkness from [the] house of imprisonment.

Because you are precious in my eyes, you are honored, and I myself love you, and I give people in place of you, and nations in place of your life.

Bring out [the] people blind yet with eyes, and deaf, though they have ears.

They do not know, and they do not understand, for their eyes [are] besmeared {so that they cannot see}, their {minds} {so that they have no insight}.

And now Yahweh says, who formed me from [the] womb as a servant for him, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might not be gathered, for I am honored in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God has become my strength.

Lift your eyes up all around and see; all of them gather; they come to you. {As surely as I live}, {declares} Yahweh, surely you shall put on all of them like [an] ornament, and you shall bind them on like bride.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look to the earth beneath, for [the] heavens will be torn to pieces like smoke, and the earth will be worn out like garment, and those who inhabit her will die like gnats. But my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be broken to pieces.

Yahweh has bared {his holy arm} to the eyes of all the nations, and all [the] ends of [the] earth shall see the salvation of our God.

We grope like the blind [along] a wall, and we grope {as without} eyes. We stumble at noon as [in] the twilight; among the strong [we are] like the dead.

and truth is missing, and he who turns aside from evil [is] plundered. And Yahweh saw, and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice

Lift up your eyes all around and see! All of them gather; they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be looked after on [the] hip.

and I will remit you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not listen, but you did the evil in my eyes, and you chose that in which I do not delight."

Whoever blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of trustworthiness, and the one who swears an oath in the land shall swear by the God of trustworthiness, because the former troubles are forgotten, and they are hidden from my eyes.

Indeed, I myself I will choose their ill treatment, and I will bring them objects of their dread, because I called, and {no one answered}; I spoke and they did not listen, but they did the evil in my eyes, and they chose that in which I do not delight."

"Lift up your eyes at [the] barren heights, and see where you have not been ravished. Beside the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the desert, and you have defiled [the] land with your fornication and with your wickedness.

And you, devastated one, what [do] you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself [with] ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. [Your] lovers reject you; they seek your life.

Yahweh, do not your eyes [look] for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain, you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, they have refused to turn back.

Hear this please, foolish and {senseless} people, {who have eyes} but do not see, {who have ears} but do not hear.'

Has this house, which is called {by my name}, become a cave of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen [it]," {declares} Yahweh.

For the people of Judah have done evil in my eyes," {declares} Yahweh, "They have set their abominations in the house that is called {by my name}, to defile it.

{Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people.

And let them hasten, and let them lift up wailing over us, so that our eyes may melt [with] tears, and our eyelids may flow [with] water.

But if you will not listen to it, my inner self will weep in secret places, because of {the presence of} [your] pride. And my eyes will weep bitterly, and they will melt [in] tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.

Lift up your eyes and see those coming from [the] north. Where [is] the flock that was given to you, {your magnificent flock}?

And wild asses stand on [the] barren heights, they gasp [for] breath like the jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no vegetation."

"And you shall say to them this word, 'Let my eyes melt [with] tears night and day, and let them not cease, for [with] a great wound the virgin daughter of my people is broken, [with] a very incurable wound.