44 Bible Verses about Eyes

And you, devastated one, what [do] you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself [with] ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. [Your] lovers reject you; they seek your life.

{What is worse}, they sent for men {who come} from a distant place, [to] whom a messenger [was] sent to them, and look! They came! [Men] for whom you bathed and painted your eyes, and you adorned yourself [with] an ornament.

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it], so she painted her eyes with black eye paint and adorned her head and looked through the window.

They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters and brought him [to] Babylon.

And [the] Philistines seized him, gouged his eyes, and brought him to Gaza. They tied him up with bronze shackles, and he became a grinder {in the prison}.

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this [condition] {I will make a treaty} with you, by gouging out the right eye of each of you, so that I can make it a disgrace for all Israel."

My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

For these [things], I am weeping, {my eyes flow with tears}; because a comforter is far from me, one to restore my life. My sons are desolate because [the] enemy has prevailed.

All things toil continuously; no one can ever finish describing this. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, and the ear is never filled with hearing.

Sheol and Abaddon will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied [either].

The eyes [are] darker than wine, and the teeth whiter than milk.

To whom [is] woe? To whom [is] sorrow? To whom [are] quarrels? To whom [is] complaint? To whom [are] wounds without cause? To whom [is] redness of [the] eyes?

Uncover my eyes, that I may look at wonderful things from your law.

Turn away my eyes from looking at [what is] worthless; revive me in your ways.

And they do all their deeds in order to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries broad and make their tassels long.

And it will be as a sign on your hand and as symbolic ornaments between your eyes that with strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt."

eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth, hand in place of hand, foot in place of foot,

" 'And if a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and destroys it, he shall release him as free in place of his eye.

And it happened [that] when Isaac [was] old and {his eyesight was weak}, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And he said to him, "Here I [am]."

{And then} one day when Eli was lying in his place (now his eyes had begun [to grow] weak so that he was not able to see)

He said, "Please, do not abandon us because you know our encampment in the desert, and {you should be our guide}.

I will instruct you and teach you in [the] way that you should go. I will advise [you] [with] my eye upon you.

Then Elisha prayed and said, "O Yahweh, please open his eyes that he may see," and Yahweh opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw, and look, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Yahweh opens [the eyes of the] blind; Yahweh raises up [those] bowed down; Yahweh loves [the] righteous;

I lift up my eyes to the mountains; whence will my help come?

I lift up my eyes to you, the one enthroned in the heavens.

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it {sparkles} on the cup, going down smoothly.

"I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin?

Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sincere, your whole body is full of light also. But when it is evil, your body [is] dark also.

"The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light.

My eye wastes away because of vexation; it grows old because of all my oppressors.

Be gracious [to] me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, [along with] my soul and my {body}.

Consider [and] answer me, O Yahweh my God. Give light to my eyes lest I sleep [the sleep of] death,

But now for a brief moment mercy has been shown by Yahweh our God, who left behind for us a remnant, and given us security in his holy place--for our God to brighten our eyes and to give us brief relief in our bondage.

The eye of [the one] seeing me will not see me; your eyes [are] upon me, but {I will be gone}.

He cuts out tunnels in the rocks, and his eye sees every treasure.

He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he {encircled him}, he cared for him, he protected him like the {apple} of his eye.

"You [are] children of Yahweh your God; [therefore] you must not gash yourself, and {you must not make your forehead bald} for [the] dead.

Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!

I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, in order that you may become rich, and white clothing, in order that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and eye salve to smear on your eyes, in order that you may see.

"The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!

I {in turn} will do this to you: then I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed {in vain}, and your enemies shall eat it.

or a hunchback or a dwarf, or a spot in his eye or a skin disorder or a skin eruption or a crushed testicle.

The winking of an eye causes trouble, and the foolishness of lips comes to ruin.

{And then} on the seventh day he must shave off all his hair--he must shave his head and his beard and {his eyebrows} and all [the rest] of his hair--and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body in the water; thus he shall be clean.

The ear that hears and the eye that sees, Yahweh has made {them both}.

From the light of the eyes, the heart will rejoice, and good news will enliven the bones.

So he sent and brought him. Now he [was] ruddy with beautiful eyes and of {handsome} appearance. And Yahweh said, "Arise, anoint him, for this [is] he."

Now the eyes of Leah [were] dull, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

I will not set before my eyes any wicked thing. I hate the work of those who fall away; it will not cling to me.

But the tax collector, standing far away, did not want even to raise his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

Will [the] one who planted [the] ear not hear? Will [the] one who formed [the] eye not see?

My face is red because of weeping, and deep shadows [are] on my eyelids,

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.