'Hearing' in the Bible

And Nehemiah -- he is the Tirshatha -- saith (and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who are instructing the people) to all the people, 'To-day is holy to Jehovah your God, do not mourn, nor weep:' for all the people are weeping at their hearing the words of the law.

On that day they read aloud from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and there was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

And it cometh to pass, at their hearing the law, that they separate all the mixed people from Israel.

And the wives of the captains of Persia and Media, hearing what the queen has done, will say the same to all the king's captains. So there will be much shame and wrath.

You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

"Who will grant me a hearing? Here's my signature let the Almighty answer! Since my adversary indicted me,

Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

{Those who have sense} say to me, and [the] wise man hearing me [says]:

When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:

In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me, Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me,

Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.

Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

To those who honor and keep His covenant,And remember to do His commandments [imprinting His word on their hearts].

So that they might observe His preceptsAnd keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them].Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;

Oh, that my ways may be establishedTo observe and keep Your statutes [obediently accepting and honoring them]!

Gimel.Deal bountifully with Your servant,That I may live and keep Your word [treasuring it and being guided by it day by day].

I will keep Your law continually,Forever and ever [writing Your precepts on my heart].

This has become mine [as the gift of Your grace],That I observe Your precepts [accepting them with loving obedience].

Before I was afflicted I went astray,But now I keep and honor Your word [with loving obedience].

According to Your steadfast love refresh me and give me life,So that I may keep and obey the testimony of Your mouth.

I understand more than the aged [who have not observed Your precepts],Because I have observed and kept Your precepts.

I have restrained my feet from every evil way,That I may keep Your word.

I have sworn [an oath] and have confirmed it,That I will keep Your righteous ordinances.

Leave me, you evildoers,That I may keep the commandments of my God [honoring and obeying them].

Pe.Your testimonies are wonderful;Therefore my soul keeps them.

Redeem me from the oppression of man;That I may keep Your precepts.

I cried to You; save meAnd I will keep Your testimonies.

I see the treacherous and loathe them,Because they do not respect Your law.

My soul keeps Your testimonies [hearing and accepting and obeying them];I love them greatly.

They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

He fulfills the desire of those who fear him, hearing their cry and saving them.

(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.

Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.

To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.

Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.

I heard the Lord of Hosts say:Indeed, many houses will become desolate,grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.

"Go!" he responded. "Tell this people: ""Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'

Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

The Lord of Hosts has directly revealed to me:“This sin of yours will never be wiped out.”The Lord God of Hosts has spoken.

And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.

And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

And it cometh to pass, at the king Hezekiah's hearing, that he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and entereth the house of Jehovah,

And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.

Who hath declared from the first, and we know? And beforetime, and we say, 'Righteous?' yea, there is none declaring, Yea, there is none proclaiming, Yea, there is none hearing your sayings.

Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.

Yet as you listen, the childrenthat you have been deprived of will say,‘This place is too small for me;make room for me so that I may settle.’

Lo, the hand of Jehovah Hath not been shortened from saving, Nor heavy his ear from hearing.

But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.

"Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem: 'This is what the Lord says: "I have fond memories of you, how devoted you were to me in your early years. I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted.

How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?

Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

and hast said, Hear a word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: 'Lo, I am bringing in evil on this place, at which the ears of every one who is hearing it do tingle,

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing;

And in the hearing of the priests and the prophets and all the people, Jeremiah said these words in the house of the Lord.

And the rulers of Judah, hearing of these things, came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord, and took their seats by the new door of the Lord's house.

Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the officials and to all the people, saying, “A death sentence for this man! For he has prophesied against this city as you have heard in your hearing.”

Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”

And when his words came to the ears of Jehoiakim the king and all his men of war and his captains, the king would have put him to death; but Uriah, hearing of it, was full of fear and went in flight into Egypt:

Only listen to this message I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.

Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.

And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.

It may be that the people of Judah, hearing of all the evil which it is my purpose to do to them, will be turned, every man from his evil ways; so that they may have my forgiveness for their evil-doing and their sin.

so you must go and read from the scroll—which you wrote at my dictation—the words of the Lord in the hearing of the people at the temple of the Lord on a day of fasting. You must also read them in the hearing of all the Judeans who are coming from their cities.

Then at the Lord’s temple, in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the Lord’s temple, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read Jeremiah’s words from the scroll.

And Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, after hearing all the words of the Lord from the book,

Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard when Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.

Then all the officials sent word to Baruch through Jehudi son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, saying, “Bring the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll and went to them.

They said to him, “Sit down and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.

{And then}, the moment of their hearing all the words, {they turned to one another in alarm} and they said to Baruch, "We must certainly report all these words to the king!"

Then they came to the king at the courtyard, having deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and reported everything in the hearing of the king.

The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi then read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing by the king.

And the king and all his servants who are hearing all these words have not been afraid, nor rent their garments.

And Pharaoh's army had come out from Egypt: and the Chaldaeans, who were attacking Jerusalem, hearing news of them, went away from Jerusalem.)

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I give you the answer to your question, will you not certainly put me to death? and if I make a suggestion to you, you will not give it a hearing.

Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;

And when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The [one] hearing him, let him hear, and the [one] failing [to hear], let him fail," ' for they {are a rebellious house}.

Then He cried out in my hearing with a loud voice saying, “Draw near, O executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”

And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.

Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.

Then anyone who, hearing the sound of the horn, does not take note of it, will himself be responsible for his death, if the sword comes and takes him away.

On hearing the sound of the horn, he did not take note; his blood will be on him; for if he had taken note his life would have been safe.

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.