'Watching' in the Bible

Now it came about, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli was watching her mouth.

When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road eagerly watching, because his heart was trembling for the ark of God. So the man came to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out.

“Blessed is the man who listens to me,Watching daily at my gates,Waiting at my doorposts.

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

He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.

Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it.”

Therefore a lion from the forest will slay them,A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,A leopard is watching their cities.Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces,Because their transgressions are many,Their apostasies are numerous.

For I have heard the whispering of many,“Terror on every side!Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!”All my trusted friends,Watching for my fall, say:“Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against himAnd take our revenge on him.”

Behold, I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will meet their end by the sword and by famine until they are completely gone.

Yet our eyes failed,Looking for help was useless;In our watching we have watchedFor a nation that could not save.

So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord.

Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.

Keep watching and praying that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Him closely to see if He healed on the Sabbath, so that they might find reason to accuse Him.

And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

It happened that when He went into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching Him closely.

but their plot became known to Saul. They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;

On the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison.

And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing by approving, and watching out for the coats of those who were slaying him.’

Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken nothing.