Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
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Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
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Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
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Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open Thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to taunt the living God.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 37:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Chronicles 6:40 “Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
- Psalms 17:6 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
- 1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
- Psalms 10:14-15 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
- Psalms 74:22 Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
- Isaiah 37:4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”
- 2 Samuel 16:12 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
- Job 36:7 He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
- Psalms 71:2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
- Psalms 74:10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
- Psalms 79:12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
- Psalms 89:50-51 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
- Psalms 130:1-2 Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh. Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
- Daniel 9:17-19 “Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake. Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And, have cast their gods into the fire..... And…
And, have cast their gods into the fire..... And burnt them; and it may well be asked, where are they? Isa 36:19,
for they were no gods, but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; they were made of wood or of stone, and therefore could not be called gods; nor could they save the nations that worshipped them, nor themselves, from the fire:
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therefore they have destroyed them; the Assyrian kings were able to do it, and did do it, because they were idols of wood or stone; but it did not therefore follow, that they were a match for the God of Israel, the true, and living God.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Incline thine ear - This is evidently language taken…
Incline thine ear - This is evidently language taken from what occurs among people. When they are desirous of hearing distinctly, they incline the ear or apply it close to the speaker. Similar language is not unfrequently used in the Scriptures as applicable to God 2Ki 19:16; Psa 86:1; Psa 31:2; Psa 88:2; Dan 9:18.
Open thine eyes - This is similar language applied to God, derived from the fact that when we wish to see an object, the eyes are fixed upon it (compare Job 14:3; Job 27:19).
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And hear all the words - That is, attend to their words, and inflict suitable punishment. This was the burden of the prayer of Hezekiah, that God would vindicate his own honor, and save his name from reproach.
Which he hath sent - In the letters which he had sent to Hezekiah, as well as the words which he had sent to the people by Rabshakeh Isa 36:18-20.
To reproach the living God - (See the note at Isa 37:4).
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain ear . . . eyes--singular, plural. When we wish…
ear . . . eyes--singular, plural. When we wish to hear a thing we lend one ear; when we wish to see a thing we open both eyes.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. open thine eyes … and see] The Hebr.…
17. open thine eyes … and see] The Hebr. has “thine eye,” which is probably a better reading than “thine eyes” in 2Ki_19:16. So “who hath sent” is more correct than “who hath sent him” (the messenger).
to reproach the living God] as in Isa_37:4.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Incline thine ear... open thine eyes. This is a…
Incline thine ear... open thine eyes. This is a conscious pleading of the promise made to Solomon. (2Ch_7:15)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Hezekiah continues praying to Yahweh.
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which he has sent
Hezekiah is referring to the letter from Sennacherib. The meaning of this can be made clear. AT: "in the message he has sent" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
Turn your ear
"Incline your ear" or "Turn your head." This means to turn your head so that you can hear something better.
Sennacherib
See how you translated this man's name in Isaiah 36:1. (See: How to Translate Names)
all the nations and their lands
This is a generalization. The kings had destroyed many of the nearby lands, but not necessarily all lands. AT: "many of the nations and their lands" (See: Hyperbole and Generalization)
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Yahweh
word
life
God
true
king
Assyria
nation
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