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Sarai said to Abram: "The LORD has kept me from bearing
children. Have intercourse, then, with my maid; perhaps I shall
have sons through her." Abram heeded Sarai's request. [GEN
16:2] Abraham prostrated himself and laughed as he
said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a
hundred years old? Or can Sarah give birth at ninety?" Then
Abraham said to God, "Let but Ishmael live on by your
favor!" God replied: "Nevertheless, your wife Sarah is
to bear you a son, and you shall call him Isaac. I will maintain
my covenant with him as an everlasting pact, to be his God and the
God of his descendants after him. As for Ishmael, I am heeding
you: I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile and will multiply
him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve chieftains,
and I will make of him a great nation. But my covenant I will
maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you by this time
next year." [GEN 17:17-21]
But God said to Abraham: "Do not be distressed about the boy or about your slave woman. Heed the demands of Sarah, no matter what she is asking of you; for it is through Isaac that descendants shall bear your name. As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a great nation of him also, since he too is your offspring."
[GEN 21:12-13]
Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; indeed he has heeded
my plea and given me a son." Therefore she named him Dan.
[GEN 30:6]
To one another, however, they said: "Alas, we are being
punished because of our brother. We saw the anguish of his heart
when he pleaded with us, yet we paid no heed; that is why this
anguish has now come upon us." [GEN 42:21]
"Go and assemble the elders of the Israelites, and tell
them: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I am concerned about you
and about the way you are being treated in Egypt; so I have
decided to lead you up out of the misery of Egypt into the land of
the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and
Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey. Thus they will heed
your message." [Taken from EX 3:16-18]
"But," objected Moses, "suppose they will not
believe me, nor listen to my plea? For they may say, 'The LORD did
not appear to you.'" The LORD therefore asked him, "What
is that in your hand?" "A staff," he answered. The
LORD then said, "Throw it on the ground." When he threw
it on the ground it was changed into a serpent, and Moses shied
away from it. "Now, put out your hand," the LORD said to
him, "and take hold of its tail." So he put out his hand
and laid hold of it, and it became a staff in his hand. "This
will take place so that they may believe," he continued,
"that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, did appear to you." Again
the LORD said to him, "Put your hand in your bosom." He
put it in his bosom, and when he withdrew it, to his surprise his
hand was leprous, like snow. The LORD then said, "Now, put
your hand back in your bosom." Moses put his hand back in his
bosom, and when he withdrew it, to his surprise it was again like
the rest of his body. "If they will not believe you, nor heed
the message of the first sign, they should believe the message of
the second. And if they will not believe even these two signs, nor
heed your plea, take some water from the river and pour it on the
dry land. The water you take from the river will become blood on
the dry land." [EX 4:1-9]
After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may celebrate a feast to me in the desert." Pharaoh answered, "Who is the LORD, that I should heed his plea to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD; even if I did, I would not let Israel go."
[EX 5:1-2]
"If you really listen to the voice of the LORD, your
God," he told them, "and do what is right in his eyes:
if you heed his commandments and keep all his precepts, I will not
afflict you with any of the diseases with which I afflicted the
Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer." [EX 15:26]
So Moses and Aaron told all the Israelites, "At evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt; and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, as he heeds your grumbling against him."
[Taken from EX 16:6-7]
"Give heed to all that I have told you. Never mention the
name of any other god; it shall not be heard from your lips." [EX
23:13]
"See, I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on
the way and bring you to the place I have prepared. Be attentive
to him and heed his voice. Do not rebel against him, for he will
not forgive your sin. My authority resides in him. If you heed his
voice and carry out all I tell you, I will be an enemy to your
enemies and a foe to your foes." [EX 23:20-22]
Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, "All that the LORD has said, we will heed and do." Then he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words of his."
[EX 24:7-8]
"Heed my charge, then, not to defile yourselves by observing the
abominable customs that have been observed before you. I, the
LORD, am your God." [LEV 18:30]
"But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these
commandments, if you reject my precepts and spurn my decrees,
refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant,
then I, in turn, will give you your deserts. I will punish you
with terrible woes - with wasting and fever to dim the eyes and
sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies
will consume the crop. I will turn against you, till you are
beaten down before your enemies and lorded over by your foes. You
will take to flight though no one pursues you. If even after this
you do not obey me, I will increase the chastisement for your sins
sevenfold, to break your haughty confidence. I will make the sky
above you as hard as iron, and your soil as hard as bronze, so
that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no
crops, and its trees no fruit. If then you become defiant in your
unwillingness to obey me, I will multiply my blows another
sevenfold, as your sins deserve." [Taken from LEV 26:14-21]
On the day when the Dwelling was erected, the cloud covered the
Dwelling, the tent of the commandments; but from evening until
morning it took on the appearance of fire over the Dwelling. It
was always so: during the day the Dwelling was covered by the
cloud, which at night had the appearance of fire. Whenever the
cloud rose from the tent, the Israelites would break camp;
wherever the cloud came to rest, they would pitch camp. At the
bidding of the LORD the Israelites moved on, and at his bidding
they encamped. As long as the cloud stayed over the Dwelling, they
remained in camp. Even when the cloud tarried many days over the
Dwelling, the Israelites obeyed the LORD and would not move on;
yet sometimes the cloud was over the Dwelling only for a few days.
It was at the bidding of the LORD that they stayed in camp, and it
was at his bidding that they departed. Sometimes the cloud
remained there only from evening until morning; and when it rose
in the morning, they would depart. Or if the cloud lifted during
the day, or even at night, they would then set out. Whether the
cloud tarried over the Dwelling for two days or for a month or
longer, the Israelites remained in camp and did not depart; but
when it lifted, they moved on. Thus, it was always at the bidding
of the LORD that they encamped, and at his bidding that they set
out; ever heeding the charge of the LORD, as he had bidden them
through Moses. [NUM 9:15-23]
The LORD answered: "I pardon them as you have asked. Yet,
by my life and the LORD'S glory that fills the whole earth, of all
the men who have seen my glory and the signs I worked in Egypt and
in the desert, and who nevertheless have put me to the test ten
times already and have failed to heed my voice, not one shall see
the land which I promised on oath to their fathers. None of these
who have spurned me shall see it. But because my servant Caleb has
a different spirit and follows me unreservedly, I will bring him
into the land where he has just been, and his descendants shall
possess it. But now, since the Amalekites and Canaanites are
living in the valleys, turn away tomorrow and set out in the
desert on the Red Sea road." [NUM 14:20-25]
Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, but they
answered, "We will not go. Are you not satisfied with having
led us here away from a land flowing with milk and honey, to make
us perish in the desert, that you must now lord it over us? Far
from bringing us to a land flowing with milk and honey, or giving
us fields and vineyards for our inheritance, will you also gouge
out our eyes? No, we will not go." Then Moses became very
angry and said to the LORD, "Pay no heed to their offering. I
have never taken a single ass from them, nor have I wronged any one of them."
[NUM 16:12-15]
When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard
that the Israelites were coming along the way of Atharim, he
engaged them in battle and took some of them captive. Israel then
made this vow to the LORD: "If you deliver this people into
my hand, I will doom their cities." Later, when the LORD
heeded Israel's prayer and delivered up the Canaanites, they
doomed them and their cities. Hence that place was named Hormah. [NUM
21:1-3]
Take heed, therefore, lest, forgetting the covenant which the LORD, your God, has made with you, you fashion for yourselves against his command an idol in any form whatsoever. For the LORD, your God, is a consuming fire, a jealous God. [DEUT
4:23-24]
"When you have children and grandchildren, and have grown
old in the land, should you then degrade yourselves by fashioning
an idol in any form and by this evil done in his sight provoke the
LORD, your God, I call heaven and earth this day to witness
against you, that you shall all quickly perish from the land which
you will occupy when you cross the Jordan. You shall not live in
it for any length of time but shall be promptly wiped out. The
LORD will scatter you among the nations, and there shall remain
but a handful of you among the nations to which the LORD will lead
you. There you shall serve gods fashioned by the hands of man out
of wood and stone, gods which can neither see nor hear, neither
eat nor smell. Yet there too you shall seek the LORD, your God;
and you shall indeed find him when you search after him with your
whole heart and your whole soul. In your distress, when all these
things shall have come upon you, you shall finally return to the
LORD, your God, and heed his voice. Since the LORD, your God, is a
merciful God, he will not abandon and destroy you, nor forget the
covenant which under oath he made with your fathers." [DEUT
4:25-31]
"As your reward for heeding these decrees and observing
them carefully, the LORD, your God, will keep with you the
merciful covenant which he promised on oath to your fathers. He
will love and bless and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of
your womb and the produce of your soil, your grain and wine and
oil, the issue of your herds and the young of your flocks, in the
land which he swore to your fathers he would give you. You will be
blessed above all peoples; no man or woman among you shall be
childless nor shall your livestock be barren. The LORD will remove
all sickness from you; he will not afflict you with any of the
malignant diseases that you know from Egypt, but will leave them
with all your enemies. You shall consume all the nations which the
LORD, your God, will deliver up to you. You are not to look on
them with pity, lest you be ensnared into serving their
gods." [Taken from DEUT 7:12-16]
But if you forget the LORD, your God, and follow other gods, serving and worshiping them, I forewarn you this day that you will perish utterly. Like the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so shall you too perish for not heeding the voice of the LORD, your God.
[DEUT 8:19-20]
"Love the LORD, your God, therefore, and always heed his
charge: his statutes, decrees and commandments." [DEUT 11:1]
Be careful to heed all these commandments I enjoin on you, that
you and your descendants may always prosper for doing what is good
and right in the sight of the LORD, your God. [DEUT 12:28]
The LORD, your God, shall you follow, and him shall you fear;
his commandment shall you observe, and his voice shall you heed,
serving him and holding fast to him alone. [DEUT 13:5]
If you but heed the voice of the LORD, your God, and carefully observe all these commandments which I enjoin on you today, you will lend to many nations, and borrow from none; you will rule over many nations, and none will rule over you, since the LORD, your God, will bless you as he promised.
[Taken from DEUT 15:5-6]
When he is enthroned in his kingdom, he shall have a copy of this law made from the scroll that is in the custody of the levitical priests.
He shall keep it with him and read it all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD, his God, and to heed and fulfill all the words of this law and these statutes. Let him not become estranged from his countrymen through pride, nor turn aside to the right or to the left from these commandments. Then he and his descendants will enjoy a long reign in Israel.
[DEUT 17:18-20]
"Thus, then, shall it be: if you continue to heed the
voice of the LORD, your God, and are careful to observe all his
commandments which I enjoin on you today, the LORD, your God, will
raise you high above all the nations of the earth." [DEUT 28:1]
"When all these things which I have set before you, the
blessings and the curses, are fulfilled in you, and from among
whatever nations the LORD, your God, may have dispersed you, you
ponder them in your heart: then, provided that you and your
children return to the LORD, your God, and heed his voice with all
your heart and all your soul, just as I now command you, the LORD,
your God, will change your lot; and taking pity on you, he will
again gather you from all the nations wherein he has scattered
you. Though you may have been driven to the farthest corner of the
world, even from there will the LORD, your God, gather you; even
from there will he bring you back. The LORD, your God, will then
bring you into the land which your fathers once occupied, that you
too may occupy it, and he will make you more prosperous and
numerous than your fathers. The LORD, your God, will circumcise
your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, that you may love
the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, and so
may live. But all those curses the LORD, your God, will assign to
your enemies and the foes who persecuted you. You, however, must
again heed the LORD'S voice and carry out all his commandments
which I now enjoin on you. Then the LORD, your God, will increase
in more than goodly measure the returns from all your labors, the
fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the
produce of your soil; for the LORD, your God, will again take
delight in your prosperity, even as he took delight in your
fathers', if only you heed the voice of the LORD, your God, and
keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this book
of the law, when you return to the LORD, your God, with all your
heart and all your soul." [DEUT 30:1-10]
"Here, then, I have today set before you life and
prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the
LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and
walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and
decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God,
will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy. If,
however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are
led astray and adore and serve other gods, I tell you now that you
will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land
which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy. I call
heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before
you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then,
that you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your
God, heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will
mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which
the LORD swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob." [DEUT 30:15-20]
The king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message
Jephthah sent him. [Taken from JUDG 11:28]
Jonathan then spoke well of David to his father Saul, saying to
him: "Let not your majesty sin against his servant David, for
he has committed no offense against you, but has helped you very
much by his deeds. When he took his life in his hands and slew the
Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great victory for all
Israel through him, you were glad to see it. Why, then, should you
become guilty of shedding innocent blood by killing David without
cause?" Saul heeded Jonathan's plea and swore, "As the
LORD lives, he shall not be killed." [1SAM 19:4-6]
Look kindly on the prayer and petition of your servant, O LORD,
my God, and listen to the cry of supplication which I, your
servant, utter before you this day. May your eyes watch night and
day over this temple, the place where you have decreed you shall
be honored; may you heed the prayer which I, your servant, offer
in this place. Listen to the petitions of your servant and of your
people Israel which they offer in this place. Listen from your
heavenly dwelling and grant pardon. [Taken from 1KGS 8:28-30]
"If, then, you heed all that I command you, follow my ways, and
please me by keeping my statutes and my commandments like my
servant David, I will be with you. I will establish for you, as I
did for David, a lasting dynasty; I will give Israel to you."
[Taken from 1KGS
11:38]
In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year
of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of
Assyria, attacked Samaria, laid siege to it, and after three years
captured it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, the ninth year of
Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken. The king of Assyria
then deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah,
at the Habor, a river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
This came about because they had not heeded the warning of the
LORD, their God, but violated his covenant, not heeding and not
fulfilling the commandments of Moses, the servant of the LORD. [2KGS
18:9-12]
I prayed: "O LORD, God of heaven, great and awesome God,
you who preserve your covenant of mercy toward those who love you
and keep your commandments, may your ear be attentive, and your
eyes open, to heed the prayer which I, your servant, now offer in
your presence day and night for your servants the Israelites,
confessing the sins which we of Israel have committed against you,
I and my father's house included. Grievously have we offended you,
not keeping the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances
which you committed to your servant Moses. But remember, I pray,
the promise which you gave through Moses, your servant, when you
said: 'Should you prove faithless, I will scatter you among the
nations; but should you return to me and carefully keep my
commandments, even though your outcasts have been driven to the
farthest corner of the world, I will gather them from there, and
bring them back to the place which I have chosen as the dwelling
place for my name.'" [Taken from NEH 1:5-9]
He continued: "Since you have the right to marry her,
listen to me, brother. Tonight I will ask the girl's father to let
us have her as your bride. When we return from Rages, we will hold
the wedding feast for her. I know that Raguel cannot keep her from
you or let her become engaged to another man; that would be a
capital crime according to the decree in the Book of Moses, and he
knows that it is your right, before all other men, to marry his
daughter. So heed my words, brother; tonight we must speak for the
girl, so that we may have her engaged to you. And when we return
from Rages, we will take her and bring her back with us to your
house." [TOBIT 6:13]
King Alexander also wrote to Jonathan to come and meet him. So
he went with pomp to Ptolemais, where he met the two kings and
gave them and their friends silver and gold and many gifts and
thus won their favor. Some pestilent Israelites, transgressors of
the law, united against him to accuse him, but the king paid no
heed to them. He ordered Jonathan to be divested of his ordinary
garments and to be clothed in royal purple; and so it was done.
The king also had him seated at his side. He said to his
magistrates: "Go with him to the center of the city and make
a proclamation that no one is to bring charges against him on any
grounds or be troublesome to him in any way." When his
accusers saw the honor paid to him in the proclamation, and the
purple with which he was clothed, they all fled. The king also
honored him by numbering him among his Chief Friends and made him
military commander and governor of the province. So Jonathan
returned in peace and happiness to Jerusalem. [1MACC 10:59-66]
What is man, that you make much of him, or pay him any heed?
[JOB 7:17]
If you inquire of the former generations, and give heed to
the experience of the fathers (As we are but of yesterday and have
no knowledge, because our days on earth are but a shadow),
Will they not teach you and tell you and utter their words of
understanding? [JOB 8:8-10]
Pay careful heed to my speech, and give my statement a hearing.
[JOB 13:17]
Again Job answered and said: Though I know my complaint is
bitter, his hand is heavy upon me in my groanings. Oh, that
today I might find him, that I might come to his judgment
seat! I would set out my cause before him, and fill my mouth
with arguments; I would learn the words with which he would
answer, and understand what he would reply to me. Even should
he contend against me with his great power, yet, would that
he himself might heed me! [Taken from JOB 23:1-6]
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he beholds all
his steps. There is no darkness so dense that evildoers can
hide in it. Therefore he discerns their works; he turns at
night and crushes them. For he forewarns no man of his
time to come before God in judgment. Without a trial he
breaks the mighty, and sets others in their stead, Because
they turned away from him and heeded none of his ways, But
caused the cries of the poor to reach him, so that he heard
the plea of the afflicted. If he remains tranquil, who then can
condemn? If he hides his face, who then can behold him? [JOB
34:21-29]
And now, kings, give heed; take warning, rulers on earth.
Serve the LORD with fear; with trembling bow down in
homage, Lest God be angry and you perish from the way in
a sudden blaze of anger. Happy are all who take refuge in God! [PS
2:10-11]
Why, LORD, do you stand at a distance and pay no heed to
these troubled times? Arrogant scoundrels pursue the
poor; they trap them by their cunning schemes. The
wicked even boast of their greed; these robbers curse and
scorn the LORD. In their insolence the wicked
boast: "God doesn't care, doesn't even exist." [PS
10:1-4]
Hear, LORD, my plea for justice; pay heed to my
cry; Listen to my prayer spoken without guile. From you
let my vindication come; your eyes see what is right. You have
tested my heart, searched it in the night. You have
tried me by fire, but find no malice in me. My mouth has
not transgressed as humans often do. As your lips have
instructed me, I have kept the way of the law. My steps have
kept to your paths; my feet have not faltered. [PS 17:1-5]
Who can detect heedless failings? Cleanse me from my
unknown faults. But from willful sins keep your servant; let
them never control me. Then shall I be
blameless, innocent of grave sin. Let the words of my mouth
meet with your favor, keep the thoughts of my heart before
you, LORD, my rock and my redeemer. [PS 19:13-15]
Hear the sound of my pleading when I cry to you, lifting
my hands toward your holy place. Do not drag me off with the
wicked, with those who do wrong, Who speak peace to
their neighbors though evil is in their hearts. Repay them
for their deeds, for the evil that they do. For the work
of their hands repay them; give them what they deserve. They
pay no heed to the LORD'S works, to the deeds of God's
hands. God will tear them down, never to be rebuilt. [PS
28:2-5]
Listen, my daughter, and understand; pay me careful
heed. Forget your people and your father's house, that the
king might desire your beauty. He is your lord; honor him,
daughter of Tyre. Then the richest of the people will
seek your favor with gifts. All glorious is the king's daughter as
she enters, her raiment threaded with gold; In embroidered
apparel she is led to the king. The maids of her train are
presented to the king. They are led in with glad and joyous
acclaim; they enter the palace of the king. [PS 45:11-16]
O God, the arrogant have risen against me; a ruthless band
has sought my life; to you they pay no heed. But you, Lord,
are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, most loving
and true. Turn to me, have pity on me; give your strength to
your servant; save this child of your handmaid. Give me a
sign of your favor: make my enemies see, to their
confusion, that you, LORD, help and comfort me. [PS 86:14-17]
The nations shall revere your name, LORD, all the kings of
the earth, your glory, Once the LORD has rebuilt Zion and
appeared in glory, Heeding the plea of the lowly, not
scorning their prayer.
[PS 102:16-18]
I am yours; save me, for I cherish your precepts. The
wicked hope to destroy me, but I pay heed to your decrees. I
have seen the limits of all perfection, but your command is
without bounds. [PS 119:94-96]
Your compassion is great, O LORD; in accord with your
edicts give me life. Though my persecutors and foes are
many I do not turn from your decrees. I view the faithless
with loathing, because they do not heed your promise. See how
I love your precepts, LORD; in your kindness give me life.
Your every word is enduring; all your just edicts are
forever. [PS 119:156-160]
"Give heed! for noble things I speak; honesty opens my lips. Yes, the truth my mouth recounts, but the wickedness my lips abhor."
[PROV 8:6-7]
A wise man heeds commands, but a prating fool will be
overthrown. [PROV 10:8]
A path to life is his who heeds admonition, but he who
disregards reproof goes astray. [PROV 10:17]
A wise son loves correction, but the senseless one heeds no
rebuke. [PROV 13:1]
A man's riches serve as ransom for his life, but the poor man
heeds no rebuke. [PROV 13:8]
Poverty and shame befall the man who disregards correction, but
he who heeds reproof is honored. [PROV 13:18]
The fool spurns his father's admonition, but prudent is he who
heeds reproof. [PROV 15:5]
He who rejects admonition despises his own soul, but he who
heeds reproof gains understanding. [PROV 15:32]
The evil man gives heed to wicked lips, and listens to
falsehood from a mischievous tongue. [PROV 17:4]
The wicked man is brazenfaced, but the upright man pays heed to
his ways. [PROV 21:29]
Do not give heed to every word that is spoken lest you hear your servant speaking ill of you, for you know in your heart that you have many times spoken ill of others.
[ECCL 7:21-22]
Though I had said, "Wisdom is better than force," yet
the wisdom of the poor man is despised and his words go unheeded.
[ECCL 9:16]
"The quiet words of the wise are better heeded than the
shout of a ruler of fools" [Taken from ECCL 9:17]
One who pays heed to the wind will not sow, and one who watches
the clouds will never reap. [ECCL 11:4]
Therefore as though upon unreasoning children, you sent your judgment on them as a mockery;
But they who took no heed of punishment which was but child's play were to experience a condemnation worthy of God.
[Taken from WISDOM 12:25-26]
Children, pay heed to a father's right; do so that you may
live. For the LORD sets a father in honor over his
children; a mother's authority he confirms over her sons. He
who honors his father atones for sins; he stores up riches who
reveres his mother. He who honors his father is gladdened by
children, and when he prays he is heard. He who reveres his
father will live a long life; he obeys the LORD who brings
comfort to his mother. He who fears the LORD honors his
father, and serves his parents as rulers. In word and deed
honor your father that his blessing may come upon you; For a
father's blessing gives a family firm roots, but a mother's
curse uproots the growing plant. [SIRACH 3:1-9]
My son, from your youth embrace discipline; thus will you
find wisdom with graying hair. As though plowing and sowing, draw
close to her; then await her bountiful crops. For in
cultivating her you will labor but little, and soon you will
eat of her fruits. How irksome she is to the unruly! The fool
cannot abide her. She will be like a burdensome stone to test
him, and he will not delay in casting her aside. For
discipline is like her name, she is not accessible to many.
Listen, my son, and heed my advice; refuse not my counsel.
Put your feet into her fetters, and your neck under her yoke.
Stoop your shoulders and carry her and be not irked at her
bonds. With all your soul draw close to her; with all your
strength keep her ways. Search her out, discover her; seek her and
you will find her. Then when you have her, do not let her go;
Thus will you afterward find rest in her, and she will become
your joy. Her fetters will be your throne of majesty; her
bonds, your purple cord. You will wear her as your robe of
glory, bear her as your splendid crown. My son, if you wish,
you can be taught; if you apply yourself, you will be shrewd.
If you are willing to listen, you will learn; if you give
heed, you will be wise. Frequent the company of the
elders; whoever is wise, stay close to him. Be eager to hear
every godly discourse; let no wise saying escape you. If you
see a man of prudence, seek him out; let your feet wear away
his doorstep! Reflect on the precepts of the LORD, let his
commandments be your constant meditation; Then he will
enlighten your mind, and the wisdom you desire he will grant.
[SIRACH 6:18-37]
Give heed, my children, to the instruction that I pronounce,
for he who keeps it will not be enslaved. [SIRACH 23:7]
Cursed be gossips and the double-tongued, for they destroy the
peace of many. A meddlesome tongue subverts many, and makes them
refugees among the peoples; It destroys walled cities, and
overthrows powerful dynasties. A meddlesome tongue can drive
virtuous women from their homes and rob them of the fruit of their
toil; Whoever heeds it has no rest, nor can he dwell in peace. A
blow from a whip raises a welt, but a blow from the tongue smashes
bones; Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not as many
as by the tongue. [SIRACH 28:13-18]
Better a poor man's fare under the shadow of one's own roof
than sumptuous banquets among strangers. Be it little or much, be
content with what you have, and pay no heed to him who would
disparage your home; A miserable life it is to go from house to
house, for as a guest you dare not open your mouth. [SIRACH 29:22-24]
Seek no advice from one who regards you with hostility; from
those who envy you, keep your intentions hidden. Speak not to a
woman about her rival, nor to a coward about war, to a merchant
about business, to a buyer about value, to a miser about
generosity, to a cruel man about mercy, to a lazy man about work,
to a seasonal laborer about the harvest, to an idle slave about a
great task: pay no attention to any advice they give. Instead,
associate with a religious man, who you are sure keeps the
commandments; Who is like-minded with yourself and will feel for
you if you fall. Then, too, heed your own heart's counsel; for
what have you that you can depend on more? A man's conscience can
tell him his situation better than seven watchmen in a lofty
tower. Most important of all, pray to God to set your feet in the
path of truth. [SIRACH 37:10-15]
My children, heed my instruction about shame; judge of disgrace
only according to my rules, For it is not always well to be
ashamed, nor is it always the proper thing to blush: Before father
and mother be ashamed of immorality, before master and mistress,
of falsehood; Before prince and ruler, of flattery; before the
public assembly, of crime; Before friend and companion, of
disloyalty, and of breaking an oath or agreement. Be ashamed of
theft from the people where you settle, and of stretching out your
elbow when you dine; Of refusing to give when asked, of defrauding
another of his appointed share, Of failing to return a greeting,
and of rebuffing a friend; Of gazing at a married woman, and of
entertaining thoughts about another's wife; Of trifling with a
servant girl you have, and of violating her couch; Of using harsh
words with friends, and of following up your gifts with insults;
Of repeating what you hear, and of betraying secrets - These are
the things you should rightly avoid as shameful if you would be
looked upon by everyone with favor. [SIRACH 41:14-24]
When I was young and innocent, I sought wisdom. She came to me
in her beauty, and until the end I will cultivate her. As the
blossoms yielded to ripening grapes, the heart's joy, My feet kept
to the level path because from earliest youth I was familiar with
her. In the short time I paid heed, I met with great instruction.
Since in this way I have profited, I will give my teacher grateful
praise. [Taken from SIRACH 51:13-17]
For thus says my Lord to me: Go, station a watchman, let him
tell what he sees. If he sees a chariot, a pair of horses, Someone
riding an ass, someone riding a camel, Then let him pay heed, very
close heed. [ISA 21:6-7]
O complacent ladies, rise up and hear my voice, overconfident
women, give heed to my words. In a little more than a year you
overconfident ones will be shaken; The vintage will fail, there
will be no harvest. [ISA 32:9-10]
Who of you gives ear to this? Who listens and pays heed for the
time to come? Who was it that gave Jacob to be plundered, Israel
to the despoilers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have
sinned? In his ways they refused to walk, his law they disobeyed.
So he poured out wrath upon them, his anger, and the fury of
battle; It blazed round about them, yet they did not realize, it
burned them, but they took it not to heart. [ISA 42:23-25]
Who among you fears the LORD, heeds his servant's voice, And
walks in darkness without any light, Trusting in the name of the
LORD and relying on his God? All of you kindle flames and carry
about you fiery darts; Walk by the light of your own fire and by
the flares you have burnt! This is your fate from my hand: you
shall lie down in a place of pain. [ISA 50:10-11]
All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no
money, come, receive grain and eat; Come, without paying and
without cost, drink wine and milk! Why spend your money for what
is not bread; your wages for what fails to satisfy? Heed me, and
you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare. Come to me
heedfully, listen, that you may have life. I will renew with you
the everlasting covenant, the benefits assured to David. As I made
him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander of nations,
So shall you summon a nation you knew not, and nations that knew
you not shall run to you, Because of the LORD, your God, the Holy
One of Israel, who has glorified you. Seek the LORD while he may
be found, call him while he is near. [ISA 55:1-6]
To whom shall I speak? whom shall I warn, and be heard? See!
their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot give heed; See, the word
of the LORD has become for them an object of scorn, which they
will not have. Therefore my wrath brims up within me, I am weary
of holding it in; I will pour it out upon the child in the street,
upon the young men gathered together. Yes, all will be taken,
husband and wife, graybeard with ancient. Their houses will fall
to strangers, their fields and their wives as well; For I will
stretch forth my hand against those who dwell in this land, says
the LORD. Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain; prophet
and priest, all practice fraud. They would repair, as though it
were nought, the injury to my people: "Peace, peace!"
they say, though there is no peace. They are odious; they have
done abominable things, yet they are not at all ashamed, they know
not how to blush. Hence they shall be among those who fall; in
their time of punishment they shall go down, says the LORD. Thus
says the LORD: Stand beside the earliest roads, ask the pathways
of old Which is the way to good, and walk it; thus you will find
rest for your souls. But they said, "We will not walk
it." When I raised up watchmen for them: "Hearken to the
sound of the trumpet!" they said, "We will not
hearken." Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O earth, what
I will do with them: See, I bring evil upon this people, the fruit
of their own schemes, Because they heeded not my words, because
they despised my law. [JER 6:10-19]
This rather is what I commanded them: Listen to my voice; then
I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk in all the
ways that I command you, so that you may prosper. But they obeyed
not, nor did they pay heed. They walked in the hardness of their
evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me. From
the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to this day,
I have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets. Yet they
have not obeyed me nor paid heed; they have stiffened their necks
and done worse than their fathers. When you speak all these words
to them, they will not listen to you either; when you call to
them, they will not answer you. Say to them: This is the nation
which does not listen to the voice of the LORD, its God, or take
correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the word itself is
banished from their speech. [Taken from JER 7:23-28]
Heed me, O LORD, and listen to what my adversaries say. Must
good be repaid with evil that they should dig a pit to take my
life? Remember that I stood before you to speak in their behalf,
to turn away your wrath from them. [Taken from JER 18:19-20]
Now, who has stood in the council of the LORD, to see him and
to hear his word? Who has heeded his word, so as to announce it?
[JER
23:18]
This word the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah
and all the citizens of Jerusalem: Since the thirteenth year of
Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day-these three and
twenty years-the word of the LORD has come to me and I spoke to
you untiringly, but you would not listen. Though you refused to
listen or pay heed, the LORD has sent you without fail all his
servants the prophets with this message: Turn back, each of you,
from your evil way and from your evil deeds; then you shall remain
in the land which the LORD gave you and your fathers, from of old
and forever. Do not follow strange gods to serve and adore them,
lest you provoke me with your handiwork, and I bring evil upon
you. But you would not listen to me, says the LORD, and so you
provoked me with your handiwork to your own harm. Hence, thus says
the LORD of hosts: Since you would not listen to my words, lo! I
will send for and fetch all the tribes of the north, says the LORD
(and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant);
I will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and
against all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making
them an object of horror, of ridicule, of everlasting reproach.
Among them I will bring to an end the song of joy and the song of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride,
the sound of the millstone and the light of the lamp. This whole
land shall be a ruin and a desert. Seventy years these nations
shall be enslaved to the king of Babylon; but when the seventy
years have elapsed, I will punish the king of Babylon and the
nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their guilt, says the
LORD. Their land I will turn into everlasting desert. Against that
land I will fulfill all the words I have spoken against it (all
that is written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against
all the nations). They also shall be enslaved to great nations and
mighty kings, and thus I will repay them according to their own
deeds and according to their own handiwork. [JER 25:2-14]
I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, of malediction, astonishment, ridicule, and reproach to all the nations among which I will banish them. For they did not listen to my words, says the LORD, though I kept sending them my servants the prophets, only to have them go unheeded, says the LORD.
[JER 29:18-19]
I kept sending you all my servants the prophets, telling you to
turn back, all of you, from your evil way; to reform your conduct,
and not follow strange gods or serve them, if you would remain on
the land which I gave you and your fathers; but you did not heed
me or obey me. [JER 35:15]
"Look, O LORD, upon my distress: all within me is in
ferment, My heart recoils within me from my monstrous rebellion.
In the streets the sword bereaves, at home death stalks. Give heed
to my groaning; there is no one to console me. All my enemies
rejoice at my misfortune: it is you who have wrought it. Bring on
the day you have proclaimed, that they may be even as I." [LAM
1:20-21]
"Pray for us also to the LORD, our God; for we have sinned
against the LORD, our God, and the wrath and anger of the LORD
have not yet been withdrawn from us at the present day. And read
out publicly this scroll which we send you, in the house of the
LORD, on the feast day and during the days of assembly: 'Justice
is with the LORD, our God; and we today are flushed with shame, we
men of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem, that we, with our kings
and rulers and priests and prophets, and with our fathers, have
sinned in the LORD'S sight and disobeyed him. We have neither
heeded the voice of the LORD, our God, nor followed the precepts
which the LORD set before us. From the time the LORD led our
fathers out of the land of Egypt until the present day, we have
been disobedient to the LORD, our God, and only too ready to
disregard his voice. And the evils and the curse which the LORD
enjoined upon Moses, his servant, at the time he led our fathers
forth from the land of Egypt to give us the land flowing with milk
and honey, cling to us even today. For we did not heed the voice
of the LORD, our God, in all the words of the prophets whom he
sent us, but each one of us went off after the devices of our own
wicked hearts, served other gods, and did evil in the sight of the
LORD, our God.'" [BARUCH 1:13-22]
"He has made us subject to all the kingdoms round about
us, a reproach and a horror among all the nations round about to
which the LORD has scattered us. We are brought low, not raised
up, because we sinned against the LORD, our God, not heeding his
voice. Justice is with the LORD, our God; and we, like our
fathers, are flushed with shame even today. All the evils of which
the LORD had warned us have come upon us: and we did not plead
before the LORD, or turn, each from the figments of his evil
heart. And the LORD kept watch over the evils, and brought them
home to us; for the LORD is just in all the works he commanded us
to do, but we did not heed his voice, or follow the precepts of
the LORD which he set before us." [Taken from BARUCH 2:4-10]
"But we did not heed your voice, or serve the king of
Babylon, and you fulfilled the threats you had made through your
servants the prophets, to have the bones of our kings and the
bones of our fathers brought out from their burial places. And
indeed, they lie exposed to the heat of day and the frost of
night. They died in dire anguish, by hunger and the sword and
plague. And you reduced the house which bears your name to what it
is today, for the wickedness of the kingdom of Israel and the
kingdom of Judah. But with us, O Lord, our God, you have dealt in
all your clemency and in all your great mercy. This was your
warning through your servant Moses, the day you ordered him to
write down your law in the presence of the Israelites: If you do
not heed my voice, surely this great and numerous throng will
dwindle away among the nations to which I will scatter them. For I
know they will not heed me, because they are a stiff-necked
people. But in the land of their captivity they shall have a
change of heart; they shall know that I, the LORD, am their God. I
will give them hearts, and heedful ears; and they shall praise me
in the land of their captivity, and shall invoke my name. Then
they shall turn back from their stiff-necked stubbornness, and
from their evil deeds, because they shall remember the fate of
their fathers who sinned against the LORD. And I will bring them
back to the land which with my oath I promised to their fathers,
to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and they shall rule it. I will make
them increase; they shall not then diminish. And I will establish
for them, as an eternal covenant, that I will be their God, and
they shall be my people; and I will not again remove my people
Israel from the land I gave them." [Taken from BARUCH 2:24-35]
"LORD Almighty, God of Israel, afflicted souls and
dismayed spirits call to you. Hear, O LORD, for you are a God of
mercy; and have mercy on us, who have sinned against you: for you
are enthroned forever, while we are perishing forever. LORD
Almighty, God of Israel, hear the prayer of Israel's few, the sons
of those who sinned against you; they did not heed the voice of
the LORD, their God, and the evils cling to us. Remember at this
time not the misdeeds of our fathers, but your own hand and name:
for you are the LORD our God; and you, O LORD, we will praise! For
this, you put into our hearts the fear of you: that we may call
upon your name, and praise you in our captivity, when we have
removed from our hearts all the wickedness of our fathers who
sinned against you. Behold us today in our captivity, where you
scattered us, a reproach, a curse, and a requital for all the
misdeeds of our fathers, who withdrew from the LORD, our
God." [BARUCH 3:1-8]
Son of man, stand up! I wish to speak with you. As he spoke to
me, spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard the
one who was speaking say to me: Son of man, I am sending you to
the Israelites, rebels who have rebelled against me; they and
their fathers have revolted against me to this very day. Hard of
face and obstinate of heart are they to whom I am sending you. But
you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord GOD! And whether they
heed or resist - for they are a rebellious house - they shall know
that a prophet has been among them. But as for you, son of man,
fear neither them nor their words when they contradict you and
reject you, and when you sit on scorpions. Neither fear their
words nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious
house. (But speak my words to them, whether they heed or resist,
for they are rebellious.) As for you, son of man, obey me when I
speak to you: be not rebellious like this house of rebellion, but
open your mouth and eat what I shall give you. It was then I saw a
hand stretched out to me, in which was a written scroll which he
unrolled before me. It was covered with writing front and back,
and written on it was: Lamentation and wailing and woe! [EZEK 2:1-10]
Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, speak thus to
your countrymen: When I bring the sword against a country, and the
people of this country select one of their number to be their
watchman, and the watchman, seeing the sword coming against the
country, blows the trumpet to warn the people, anyone hearing but
not heeding the warning of the trumpet and therefore slain by the
sword that comes against him, shall be responsible for his own
death. He heard the trumpet blast yet refused to take warning; he
is responsible for his own death, for had he taken warning he
would have escaped with his life. But if the watchman sees the
sword coming and fails to blow the warning trumpet, so that the
sword comes and takes anyone, I will hold the watchman responsible
for that person's death, even though that person is taken because
of his own sin. You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the
house of Israel; when you hear me say anything, you shall warn
them for me. If I tell the wicked man that he shall surely die,
and you do not speak out to dissuade the wicked man from his way,
he (the wicked man) shall die for his guilt, but I will hold you
responsible for his death. But if you warn the wicked man, trying
to turn him from his way, and he refuses to turn from his way, he
shall die for his guilt, but you shall save yourself. [EZEK 33:1-9]
"Blessed are you, and praiseworthy, O Lord, the God of our
fathers, and glorious forever is your name. For you are just in
all you have done; all your deeds are faultless, all your ways
right, and your judgments proper. You have executed proper
judgments in all that you have brought upon us and upon Jerusalem,
the holy city of our fathers. By a proper judgment you have done
all this because of our sins; For we have sinned and transgressed
by departing from you, and we have done every kind of evil. Your
commandments we have not heeded or observed, nor have we done as
you ordered us for our good. Therefore all you have brought upon
us, all you have done to us, you have done by a proper
judgment." [Taken from DAN 3:26-31]
I turned to the Lord God, pleading in earnest prayer, with
fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. I prayed to the LORD, my God, and
confessed, "Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, you who keep
your merciful covenant toward those who love you and observe your
commandments! We have sinned, been wicked and done evil; we have
rebelled and departed from your commandments and your laws. We
have not obeyed your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name
to our kings, our princes, our fathers, and all the people of the
land. Justice, O Lord, is on your side; we are shamefaced even to
this day: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all
Israel, near and far, in all the countries to which you have
scattered them because of their treachery toward you. O LORD, we
are shamefaced, like our kings, our princes, and our fathers, for
having sinned against you. But yours, O Lord, our God, are
compassion and forgiveness! Yet we rebelled against you and paid
no heed to your command, O LORD, our God, to live by the law you
gave us through your servants the prophets. Because all Israel
transgressed your law and went astray, not heeding your voice, the
sworn malediction, recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of
God, was poured out over us for our sins. You carried out the
threats you spoke against us and against those who governed us, by
bringing upon us in Jerusalem the greatest calamity that has ever
occurred under heaven. As it is written in the law of Moses, this
calamity came full upon us. As we did not appease the LORD, our
God, by turning back from our wickedness and recognizing his
constancy, so the LORD kept watch over the calamity and brought it
upon us. You, O LORD, our God, are just in all that you have done,
for we did not listen to your voice. Now, O Lord, our God, who led
your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and made
a name for yourself even to this day, we have sinned, we are
guilty. O Lord, in keeping with all your just deeds, let your
anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your
holy mountain. On account of our sins and the crimes of our
fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become the reproach of all
our neighbors. Hear, therefore, O God, the prayer and petition of
your servant; and for your own sake, O Lord, let your face shine
upon your desolate sanctuary. Give ear, O my God, and listen; open
your eyes and see our ruins and the city which bears your name.
When we present our petition before you, we rely not on our just
deeds, but on your great mercy. O Lord, hear! O Lord, pardon! O
Lord, be attentive and act without delay, for your own sake, O my
God, because this city and your people bear your name!" [DAN
9:3-19]
Hear, O peoples, all of you, give heed, O earth, and all that
fills you! Let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from
his holy temple! For see, the LORD comes forth from his place, he
descends and treads upon the heights of the earth. The mountains
melt under him and the valleys split open, Like wax before the
fire, like water poured down a slope. [MICAH 1:2-4]
The angel of the LORD then gave Joshua this assurance:
"Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you walk in my ways and heed
my charge, you shall judge my house and keep my courts, and I will
give you access among these standing here. Listen, O Joshua, high
priest! You and your associates who sit before you are men of good
omen. Yes, I will bring my servant the Shoot. Look at the stone
that I have placed before Joshua, one stone with seven facets. I
will engrave its inscription, says the LORD of hosts, and I will
take away the guilt of the land in one day. On that day, says the
LORD of hosts, you will invite one another under your vines and
fig trees." [ZECH 3:6-10]
For the scripture says, "No one who believes in him will
be put to shame." For there is no distinction between Jew and
Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all, enriching all who call upon
him. For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be
saved." But how can they call on him in whom they have not
believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not
heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? And how
can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written,
"How beautiful are the feet of those who bring (the) good
news!" But not everyone has heeded the good news; for Isaiah
says, "Lord, who has believed what was heard from us?"
Thus faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes
through the word of Christ. [Taken from ROM 10:11-17]
Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who
listen to this prophetic message and heed what is written in it,
for the appointed time is near. [RV 1:3]
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