'Eyes' in the Bible

Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.

Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,

Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

As vinegar to the teeth, And as smoke to the eyes, So is the slothful to those sending him.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel is wise.

In every place are the eyes of Jehovah, Watching the evil and the good.

The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart, A good report maketh fat the bone.

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.

Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

A stone of grace is the bribe in the eyes of its possessors, Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

The face of the intelligent is to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.

A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil,

Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied with bread.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.

Loftiness of eyes, and breadth of heart, Tillage of the wicked is sin.

The soul of the wicked hath desired evil, Not gracious in his eyes is his neighbour.

The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.

Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

Lest Jehovah see, and it be evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.

For better that he hath said to thee, 'Come thou up hither,' Than that he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

Wiser is the slothful in his own eyes, Than seven men returning a reason.

Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.

A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.

Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.

The poor and the man of frauds have met together, Jehovah is enlightening the eyes of them both.

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

The wise! -- his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

Better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

Sweet also is the light, And good for the eyes to see the sun.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

Lo, thou art fair, my friend, Lo, thou art fair, thine eyes are doves!

Lo, thou art fair, my friend, lo, thou art fair, Thine eyes are doves behind thy veil, Thy hair as a row of the goats That have shone from mount Gilead,

Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

His eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness.

Turn round thine eyes from before me, Because they have made me proud. Thy hair is as a row of the goats, That have shone from Gilead,

Thy neck as a tower of the ivory, Thine eyes pools in Heshbon, near the gate of Bath-Rabbim, Thy face as a tower of Lebanon looking to Damascus,

I am a wall, and my breasts as towers, Then I have been in his eyes as one finding peace.

And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving with the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling,

And bowed down is the low, and humbled the high, And the eyes of the haughty become low,

Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And -- before their own faces -- intelligent!

And I say, 'Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips am I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.

To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth.

And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.

In that day doth man look to His Maker, Yea, his eyes to the Holy One of Israel look,

For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes -- the prophets, And your heads -- the seers -- He covered.

And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.

And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,

And not dazzled are the eyes of beholders, And the ears of hearers do attend.

Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.

See Zion, the city of our meetings, Thine eyes see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, A tent not taken down, Not removed are its pins for ever, And none of its cords are broken.

Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,

Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach the living God.

Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.

and saith, 'I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping.

As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.

Lift up on high your eyes, And see -- who hath prepared these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And he is strong in power) not one is lacking.

To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.

Since thou wast precious in Mine eyes, Thou wast honoured, and I have loved thee, And I appoint men in thy stead, And peoples instead of thy life.

He brought out a blind people who have eyes, And deaf ones who have ears.

They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.

And now, said Jehovah, who is forming me from the belly for a servant to Him, To bring back Jacob unto Him, (Though Israel is not gathered, Yet I am honoured in the eyes of Jehovah, And my God hath been my strength.)

Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have been gathered, They have come to thee. I live, an affirmation of Jehovah! Surely all of them as an ornament thou puttest on, And thou bindest them on like a bride.

Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished, And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My righteousness is not broken.

Jehovah hath made bare His holy arm Before the eyes of all the nations, And seen have all the ends of the earth, The salvation of our God.

We feel like the blind for the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.

And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.

Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have been gathered, they have come to thee, Thy sons from afar do come, And thy daughters on the side are supported.

And I have numbered you for the sword, And all of you for slaughter bow down, Because I called, and ye have not answered, I have spoken, and ye have not hearkened, And ye do the evil thing in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.

So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, Doth bless himself In the God of faithfulness, And he who is swearing in the earth, Doth swear by the God of faithfulness, Because the former distresses have been forgotten, And because they have been hid from Mine eyes.

I also -- I fix on their vexations, And their fears I bring in to them, Because I have called, and there is none answering, I spake, and they have not hearkened, And they do the evil things in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.

Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.

And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself with ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.

Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

A den of burglars hath this house, On which My name is called, been in your eyes? Even I, lo, I have seen, an affirmation of Jehovah.

For the sons of Judah Have done the evil thing in Mine eyes, An affirmation of Jehovah, They have set their abominations in the house On which My name is called -- to defile it,

And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.

And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.

Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where is the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?

And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.

And thou hast said unto them this word: Tears come down mine eyes night and day, And they do not cease, For, with a great breach, Broken hath been the virgin daughter of my people, A very grievous stroke.