'Eyes' in the Bible

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,So our eyes look to the Lord our God,Until He is gracious to us.

A Song of Ascents, of David.O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty;Nor do I involve myself in great matters,Or in things too difficult for me.

I will not give sleep to my eyesOr slumber to my eyelids,

They have mouths, but they do not speak;They have eyes, but they do not see;

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;And in Your book were all writtenThe days that were ordained for me,When as yet there was not one of them.

For my eyes are toward You, O God, the Lord;In You I take refuge; do not leave me defenseless.

The eyes of all look to You,And You give them their food in due time.

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind;The Lord raises up those who are bowed down;The Lord loves the righteous;

Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited netIn the sight of any bird;

Do not be wise in your own eyes;Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

Let your eyes look directly aheadAnd let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.

For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord,And He watches all his paths.

Give no sleep to your eyes,Nor slumber to your eyelids;

Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,Who points with his fingers;

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,And hands that shed innocent blood,

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,So is the lazy one to those who send him.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,But a wise man is he who listens to counsel.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place,Watching the evil and the good.

Bright eyes gladden the heart;Good news puts fat on the bones.

He who winks his eyes does so to devise perverse things;He who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

Wisdom is in the presence of the one who has understanding,But the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

A king who sits on the throne of justiceDisperses all evil with his eyes.

Do not love sleep, or you will become poor;Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.

Every man’s way is right in his own eyes,But the Lord weighs the hearts.

Haughty eyes and a proud heart,The lamp of the wicked, is sin.

The soul of the wicked desires evil;His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,But He overthrows the words of the treacherous man.

When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.For wealth certainly makes itself wingsLike an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

Give me your heart, my son,And let your eyes delight in my ways.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?Who has contentions? Who has complaining?Who has wounds without cause?Who has redness of eyes?

Your eyes will see strange thingsAnd your mind will utter perverse things.

For it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”Than for you to be placed lower in the presence of the prince,Whom your eyes have seen.

Answer a fool as his folly deserves,That he not 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.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyesThan seven men who can give a discreet answer.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes,But the poor who has understanding sees through him.

He who gives to the poor will never want,But he who shuts his eyes will have many curses.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common:The Lord gives light to the eyes of both.

There is a kind who is pure in his own eyes,Yet is not washed from his filthiness.

There is a kind—oh how lofty are his eyes!And his eyelids are raised in arrogance.

All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both.

There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor a brother, yet there was no end to all his labor. Indeed, his eyes were not satisfied with riches and he never asked, “And for whom am I laboring and depriving myself of pleasure?” This too is vanity and it is a grievous task.

What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind.

The light is pleasant, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

“How beautiful you are, my darling,How beautiful you are!Your eyes are like doves.”

“How beautiful you are, my darling,How beautiful you are!Your eyes are like doves behind your veil;Your hair is like a flock of goatsThat have descended from Mount Gilead.

“You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride;You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes,With a single strand of your necklace.

“His eyes are like dovesBeside streams of water,Bathed in milk,And reposed in their setting.

“Turn your eyes away from me,For they have confused me;Your hair is like a flock of goatsThat have descended from Gilead.

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,Your eyes like the pools in HeshbonBy the gate of Bath-rabbim;Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,Which faces toward Damascus.

“I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers;Then I became in his eyes as one who finds peace.

“So when you spread out your hands in prayer,I will hide My eyes from you;Yes, even though you multiply prayers,I will not listen.Your hands are covered with blood.

Moreover, the Lord said, “Because the daughters of Zion are proudAnd walk with heads held high and seductive eyes,And go along with mincing stepsAnd tinkle the bangles on their feet,

So the common man will be humbled and the man of importance abased,The eyes of the proud also will be abased.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyesAnd clever in their own sight!

Then I said,“Woe is me, for I am ruined!Because I am a man of unclean lips,And I live among a people of unclean lips;For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

“Render the hearts of this people insensitive,Their ears dull,And their eyes dim,Otherwise they might see with their eyes,Hear with their ears,Understand with their hearts,And return and be healed.”

And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,And He will not judge by what His eyes see,Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

Their little ones also will be dashed to piecesBefore their eyes;Their houses will be plunderedAnd their wives ravished.

In that day man will have regard for his MakerAnd his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore I say, “Turn your eyes away from me,Let me weep bitterly,Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep,He has shut your eyes, the prophets;And He has covered your heads, the seers.

On that day the deaf will hear words of a book,And out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.

Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded,And the ears of those who hear will listen.

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity,He who rejects unjust gainAnd shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshedAnd shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;They will behold a far-distant land.

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed habitation,A tent which will not be folded;Its stakes will never be pulled up,Nor any of its cords be torn apart.

Then the eyes of the blind will be openedAnd the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to reproach the living God.

“Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?And against whom have you raised your voiceAnd haughtily lifted up your eyes?Against the Holy One of Israel!

“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;I moan like a dove;My eyes look wistfully to the heights;O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

Lift up your eyes on highAnd see who has created these stars,The One who leads forth their host by number,He calls them all by name;Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,Not one of them is missing.

To open blind eyes,To bring out prisoners from the dungeonAnd those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,And the deaf, even though they have ears.

They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend.

“Lift up your eyes and look around;All of them gather together, they come to you.As I live,” declares the Lord,“You will surely put on all of them as jewels and bind them on as a bride.

“Lift up your eyes to the sky,Then look to the earth beneath;For the sky will vanish like smoke,And the earth will wear out like a garmentAnd its inhabitants will die in like manner;But My salvation will be forever,And My righteousness will not wane.

Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices,They shout joyfully together;For they will see with their own eyesWhen the Lord restores Zion.

We grope along the wall like blind men,We grope like those who have no eyes;We stumble at midday as in the twilight,Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.

“Lift up your eyes round about and see;They all gather together, they come to you.Your sons will come from afar,And your daughters will be carried in the arms.

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see;Where have you not been violated?By the roads you have sat for themLike an Arab in the desert,And you have polluted a landWith your harlotry and with your wickedness.

And you, O desolate one, what will you do?Although you dress in scarlet,Although you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold,Although you enlarge your eyes with paint,In vain you make yourself beautiful.Your lovers despise you;They seek your life.

O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth?You have smitten them,But they did not weaken;You have consumed them,But they refused to take correction.They have made their faces harder than rock;They have refused to repent.

‘Now hear this, O foolish and senseless people,Who have eyes but do not see;Who have ears but do not hear.

Oh that my head were watersAnd my eyes a fountain of tears,That I might weep day and nightFor the slain of the daughter of my people!

“Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us,That our eyes may shed tearsAnd our eyelids flow with water.

But if you will not listen to it,My soul will sob in secret for such pride;And my eyes will bitterly weepAnd flow down with tears,Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.

“Lift up your eyes and seeThose coming from the north.Where is the flock that was given you,Your beautiful sheep?

“The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights;They pant for air like jackals,Their eyes failFor there is no vegetation.

“You will say this word to them,‘Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day,And let them not cease;For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow,With a sorely infected wound.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.

For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.

For thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; and while your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will give over all Judah to the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away as exiles to Babylon and will slay them with the sword.

“But your eyes and your heartAre intent only upon your own dishonest gain,And on shedding innocent bloodAnd on practicing oppression and extortion.”

For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsely in My name, ‘Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will slay them before your eyes.