◄ Psalm 34:15 {33:16} ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD watches over the righteous and listens to their cries;

New Revised Standard Version
The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.

Contemporary English Version
If you obey the LORD, he will watch over you and answer your prayers.

New American Bible
The eyes of the LORD are directed toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers.

The

Psalm 33:18 Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy.

Job 36:7 He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.

1 Peter 3:12 Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things.

and

Psalm 34:6,17 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles. . . .

Psalm 130:2 Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.

2 Chronicles 6:40 For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and let thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.

Isaiah 37:14-21 And Ezechias took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezechias spread it before the Lord. . . .

Daniel 9:17-23 Now, therefore, O our God, hear the supplication of thy servant, and his prayers: and shew thy face upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate, for thy own sake. . . .

Context
Taste and See that the LORD is Good
…14Turn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it. 15The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers.16But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.…
Cross References
John 9:31
Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth.

1 Peter 3:12
Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things.

2 Chronicles 6:20
That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house day and night, upon the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be called upon,

Job 36:7
He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted.

Psalm 10:17
The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart.

Psalm 11:4
For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

Psalm 18:6
In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

Psalm 33:18
Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy.

Psalm 40:1
Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.

Habakkuk 1:13
Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?

Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.

Malachi 3:16
Then they that feared the Lord, spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name.

Psalm 34:14
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