2 Kings 19:16 “Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. L…”

2 Kings 19:16

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

World English Bible

Incline your ear, LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.

American Standard Version

Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, wherewith he hath sent him to defy the living God.

Geneva Bible 1599

Lord, bow downe thine eare, and heare: Lord open thine eyes and behold, and heare the wordes of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God.

Darby Translation

Incline thine ear, Jehovah, and hear; open, Jehovah, thine eyes, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent him to reproach the living God.

Young's Literal Translation

Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes, and see; and hear Thou the words of Sennacherib with which he hath sent him to reproach the living God.

Bible in Basic English

Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see; take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.

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Cross references

“bow down”

Psalm 31:2 Isaiah 37:17

Psalm 31:2 · BSB

Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.

Isaiah 37:17 · BSB

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

“open”

2 Chronicles 6:40 1 Kings 8:29 Daniel 9:18

2 Chronicles 6:40 · BSB

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

1 Kings 8:29 · BSB

May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

Daniel 9:18 · BSB

Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great co…

“which hath sent”

2 Kings 19:4 Psalm 79:12 Isaiah 37:4 Hebrews 11:26

2 Kings 19:4 · BSB

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore li…

Psalm 79:12 · BSB

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

Isaiah 37:4 · BSB

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift u…

Hebrews 11:26 · BSB

He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

17Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.

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