Quotes about Listening

Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.

And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.

So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.

“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.

Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.