Quotes about Listening
Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.
— Ezekiel 33:32
“Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”
— Ezekiel 40:4
We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, and fathers, and to all the people of the land.
— Daniel 9:6
I heard the sound of his words, and as I listened, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.
— Daniel 10:9
“Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.
— Daniel 10:12
While he was speaking these words to me, I set my face toward the ground and became speechless.
— Daniel 10:15
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
— Amos 8:11
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,
— Jonah 1:1
Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
— Micah 1:2
Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
— Micah 6:1
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
— Micah 7:7
I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.
— Habakkuk 2:1