Eye
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Anthropomorphic uses of
Ps 33:18, 19; 34:15; 121:3–5; Isa 1:15; 3:8; Amos 9:8; Hab 1:13; 1 Pet 3:12
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
Psalms 33:1819 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Psalms 33:1915 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Psalms 34:153 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
Psalms 121:315 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 1:158 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Isaiah 3:88 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
Amos 9:813 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
Habakkuk 1:1312 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
1 Peter 3:12 - For additional anthropomorphic uses of
- See Anthropomorphisms
- Figurative
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Of evil desire, never satisfied
Prov 27:20; Eccl 1:8; 1 John 2:16
20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs 27:208 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 1:816 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 John 2:16 -
The offending
Matt 5:29
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 5:29
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
