'Heed' in the Bible

“Behold this; we have investigated it, and it is true.Hear and heed it, and know for yourself [for your own good].”

Would he plead against me with his great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

“However, Job, please listen to my words,And pay attention to everything I say.

“Pay attention, Job, listen to me;Keep silent, and I will speak.

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Listen to my words, O Lord,Consider my groaning and sighing.

Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God,For to You I pray.

A Prayer of David.Hear a just cause, O Lord, give heed to my cry;Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

Wait for and expect the Lord and keep His way,And He will exalt you to inherit the land;[In the end] when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

{To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

O God, hear my prayer; heed the words of my mouth.

Give heed to me and answer me;I am restless in my complaint and am surely distracted,

O my Strength, unto Thee I take heed, For God is my tower -- the God of my kindness.

For the choir director; on a stringed instrument. A Psalm of David.Hear my cry, O God;Give heed to my prayer.

But certainly God has heard;He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer;And give heed to the voice of my supplications!

They have said, “The Lord does not see,Nor does the God of Jacob pay heed.”

Pay heed, you senseless among the people;And when will you understand, stupid ones?

I will give heed to the blameless way.When will You come to me?I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.

Who is wise? Let him give heed to these things,And consider the lovingkindnesses of the Lord.

I will heed your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.

BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and heed your word.

Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and heed it with [my] whole heart.

So I will heed your law continually, forever and ever.

I remember your name in the night, O Yahweh, and I heed your law.

Yahweh [is] my portion; I intend to heed your words.

I hurry and do not delay to heed your commands.

I am a companion of all who [reverently] fear You,And of those who keep and honor Your precepts.

Before I was afflicted, I was going astray, but now I heed your word.

According to your loyal love preserve me alive, so that I may heed the testimony from your mouth.

I have restrained my feet from every evil way, so that I may heed your word.

I have sworn [an oath] and confirmed [it], to heed {your righteous ordinances}.

Redeem me from [the] oppression of humankind, that I may heed your precepts.

Streams of water flow down [from] my eyes, because [people] do not heed your law.

I call to you. Save me, and I will heed your testimonies.

I see [the] treacherous and I feel disgust, because they do not heed your word.

I heed your precepts and testimonies, because all my ways [are] before you.

If your sons will heed my covenant and my testimonies that I will teach them, their sons also forever will sit on your throne."

“Give heed to my cry,For I am brought very low;Deliver me from my persecutors,For they are too strong for me.

He has not dealt this way with any [other] nation;They have not known [understood, appreciated, heeded, or cherished] His ordinances.Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

“If you will turn and pay attention to my rebuke,Behold, I [Wisdom] will pour out my spirit on you;I will make my words known to you.

For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.

“Heed instruction and be wise,And do not neglect it.

A heart of wisdom will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that taketh heed to his way keepeth his soul.

He that giveth heed to the word shall find good; and whoso confideth in Jehovah, happy is he.

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

A servant will not be corrected by words; For though he understand, he will not give heed.

Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

And so the Lord will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know [heed, honor, and cherish] the Lord in that day. They will even worship with sacrifices [of animals] and offerings [of produce]; they will make a vow to the Lord and fulfill it.

And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

Who among you will give ear to this?Who will give heed and listen hereafter?

“Listen carefully, I am about to do a new thing,Now it will spring forth;Will you not be aware of it?I will even put a road in the wilderness,Rivers in the desert.

“O generation, heed the word of the Lord.Have I been a wilderness to Israel,Or a land of thick darkness?Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam;We will no longer come to You’?

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Cursed is the man who does not heed the words of this covenant

They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed.

But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,'" says the Lord.

Listen and give heed, do not be haughty,For the Lord has spoken.

Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”

“But who has stood in the council of the Lord,That he should see and hear His word?Who has given heed to His word and listened?

Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

Then you will call on Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear [your voice] and I will listen to you.

I will punish him and his descendants and the officials who serve him for the wicked things they have done. I will bring on them, the citizens of Jerusalem, and the people of Judah all the disaster that I threatened to do to them. I will punish them because I threatened them but they still paid no heed."'"

You have profaned Me among My people [in payment] for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who should not die and giving [a guarantee of] life to those who should not live, because of your lies to My people who pay attention to lies.”’”

then if anyone who hears the sound of the alarm does not heed the warning, when the sword arrives and destroys him, his shed blood will remain his own responsibility.

After all, he heard the alarm sounding, but did not heed the warning, so his shed blood will remain his own responsibility. If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved himself.

I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My ordinances and do them.

“My servant David will be king over them, and they all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

[However] there are Judean men whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon--Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego--these men, O king, {pay you no heed} [and] [were] not serving your god, and the statue of gold that you set up they are not worshiping."

Now therefore, our God, listen to (heed) the prayer of Your servant (Daniel) and his supplications, and for Your own sake let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.

O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! Do not delay, for Your own sake, O my God, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”

At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.

“I will betroth you to Me in stability and in faithfulness.Then you will know (recognize, appreciate) the Lord [and respond with loving faithfulness].

For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

Hear this, O priests!Give heed, O house of Israel!Listen, O house of the king!For the judgment applies to you,For you have been a snare at MizpahAnd a net spread out on Tabor.

Their [immoral] practices will not permit themTo return to their God,For the spirit of prostitution is within themAnd they do not know the Lord [they do not recognize, appreciate, heed or cherish Him].

“So let us know and become personally acquainted with Him; let us press on to know and understand fully the [greatness of the] Lord [to honor, heed, and deeply cherish Him].His appearing is prepared and is as certain as the dawn,And He will come to us [in salvation] like the [heavy] rain,Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

Hear, all you peoples; give heed, O earth and its fullness. And let the Lord Yahweh be against you as a witness, the Lord from {his holy temple}.

The voice of the LORD cries out to the city wisdom fears your name: "Heed the rod, and the one who prepared it!

She did not listen and heed the voice [of God];She accepted no correction.She did not trust in the Lord [but trusted her own power];She did not draw near to her God [but to the pagan gods of Baal or Molech].

Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people gave heed to the voice of Yahweh their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him, {and the people feared Yahweh}.

“Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”’ But they did not listen or give heed to Me,” declares the Lord.

And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock that gave heed to me knew that it was the word of Jehovah.

Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, 'In what do we turn back?'

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

'But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.

And, take ye heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrims, and in their synagogues they will scourge you,

Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread -- to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?'