2 Chronicles 6:20

6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ² 

Job 34:21

34:21 For his eyes are on the ways of an individual,

he observes all a person’s ³  steps.

Psalms 34:15

34:15 The Lord pays attention to the godly

and hears their cry for help. ⁴ 

Psalms 113:6

113:6 He bends down to look ⁵ 

at the sky and the earth.

Proverbs 5:21

5:21 For the ways of a person ⁶  are in front of the Lord’s eyes,

and the Lord ⁷  weighs ⁸  all that person’s ⁹  paths.

Proverbs 15:3

15:3 The eyes of the Lord ¹⁰  are in every place,

keeping watch ¹¹  on those who are evil and those who are good.

Jeremiah 16:17

16:17 For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it. ¹² 

Jeremiah 32:19

32:19 You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. ¹³  You see everything people do. ¹⁴  You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do. ¹⁵ 

Zechariah 4:10

4:10 For who dares make light of small beginnings? These seven eyes ¹⁶  will joyfully look on the tin tablet ¹⁷  in Zerubbabel’s hand. (These are the eyes of the Lord, which constantly range across the whole earth.)

Hebrews 4:13

4:13 And no creature is hidden from God, ¹⁸  but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

Hebrews 4:1

God’s Promised Rest

4:1 Therefore we must be wary ¹⁹  that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

Hebrews 3:12

3:12 See to it, ²⁰  brothers and sisters, ²¹  that none of you has ²²  an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes ²³  the living God. ²⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

² tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

³ tn Heb “his”; the referent (a person) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord [are] toward the godly, and his ears [are] toward their cry for help.”

⁵ tn Heb “the one who makes low to see.”

⁶ tn Heb “man.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn BDB 814 s.v. פָּלַס 2 suggests that the participle מְפַּלֵּס (mÿpalles) means “to make level [or, straight].” As one’s ways are in front of the eyes of the Lord, they become straight or right. It could be translated “weighs” since it is a denominative from the noun for “balance, scale”; the Lord weighs or examines the actions.

⁹ tn Heb “all his”; the referent (the person mentioned in the first half of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ sn The proverb uses anthropomorphic language to describe God’s exacting and evaluating knowledge of all people.

¹¹ tn The form צֹפוֹת (tsofot, “watching”) is a feminine plural participle agreeing with “eyes.” God’s watching eyes comfort good people but convict evil.

¹² tn Heb “For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hidden from before me. And their sin is not hidden away from before my eyes.”

¹³ tn Heb “[you are] great in counsel and mighty in deed.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “your eyes are open to the ways of the sons of men.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “giving to each according to his way [= behavior/conduct] and according to the fruit of his deeds.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “these seven.” Eyes are clearly intended in the ellipsis as v. 10b shows. As in 3:9 the idea is God’s omniscience. He who knows the end from the beginning rejoices at the completion of his purposes.

¹⁷ tn This term is traditionally translated “plumb line” (so NASB, NIV, NLT; cf. KJV, NRSV “plummet”), but it is more likely that the Hebrew בְּדִיל (bÿdil) is to be derived not from בָּדַל (badal), “to divide,” but from a root meaning “tin.” This finds support in the ancient Near Eastern custom of placing inscriptions on tin plates in dedicatory foundation deposits.

¹⁸ tn Grk “him”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹ tn Grk “let us fear.”

²⁰ tn Or “take care.”

²¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.

²² tn Grk “that there not be in any of you.”

²³ tn Or “deserts,” “rebels against.”

²⁴ tn Grk “in forsaking the living God.”