to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.
Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.
Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
The Lord the LORD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
Speak, Thus says the LORD, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them].
The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.
So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
Thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.
great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
the LORD has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, the LORD of Armies, has a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.
Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again.
Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."
For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"
It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."
but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."
They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"
Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"
Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn't go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me."
They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn't open the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened [them], and behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
He said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink; for I am thirsty." She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I can't go back."
She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because the LORD has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon."
Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean."
This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD.
His mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God.
(as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),
Now it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,
The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
"I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.
They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"
Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says the LORD of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.
Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" that is, "Be opened!"
Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.
He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, "See that no one knows about this."
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you."
They told him, "Lord, that our eyes may be opened."
Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with the LORD at their head.
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned.
Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set [there] the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
I said to them, "Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house."
Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
It came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.
"Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:
For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD."
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.
Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean.
"Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"
Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."
She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.
I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.
Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
I am the LORD, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
the LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. the LORD raises up those who are bowed down. the LORD loves the righteous.
"To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
"I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn't deny my name.
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