'Open' in the Bible

For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm of David. When I call out, answer me, O God who vindicates me! Though I am hemmed in, you will lead me into a wide, open place. Have mercy on me and respond to my prayer!

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

He brought me out to a spacious place;He rescued me because He delighted in me.

His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

Everyone who sees me mocks me; they gape at me with open mouths and shake their heads at me.

They open their mouths against me—lions, mauling and roaring.

You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

They open their mouths wide against me and say,“Aha, aha! We saw it!”

I am like a deaf person; I do not hear.I am like a speechless personwho does not open his mouth.

I am speechless; I do not open my mouthbecause of what You have done.

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;You open my ears to listen.You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;

Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

You have shaken the land and split it open.Heal its fissures, for it shudders.

Let my cry come to you, O God; let your ears be open to my prayer.

You allowed men to ride over our heads; we passed through fire and water, but you brought us out into a wide open place.

But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.

You split open [the] sea by your strength; You broke [the] heads of [the] sea monsters in the waters.

You broke open springs and torrents;You dried up ever-flowing streams.

You kept my eyes open; I was troubled and couldn't speak.

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?

Yet he commanded the skies above and the doors of the heavens to open,

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.

Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.

When You give it to them,they gather it;when You open Your hand,they are satisfied with good things.

His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river.

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me;they speak against me with lying tongues.

He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.

In my distress I cried out to the Lord. The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place.

Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

I will walk freely in an open placebecause I seek Your precepts.

I open my mouth and pantbecause I long for Your commands.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

You who are in the house of the Lord, and in the open spaces of the house of our God,

As when one plows and breaks open the earth,Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Our storehouses will be full,supplying all kinds of produce;our flocks will increase by thousandsand tens of thousands in our open fields.

You open Your handand satisfy the desire of every living thing.

The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;