You allowed men to ride over our heads; we passed through fire and water, but you brought us out into a wide open place.

When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. And they did not know what to tell him.

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

I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs – I will rip open their chests. I will devour them there like a lion – like a wild animal would tear them apart.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord’s face is against those who do evil.

Then when the Lamb opened the third seal I heard the third living creature saying, “Come!” So I looked, and here came a black horse! The one who rode it had a balance scale in his hand.

Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.

Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red;

to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

For they are entirely given to me from among the Israelites. I have taken them for myself instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn sons of all the Israelites.

“Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,’

The city will have open spaces: On the north there will be 437½ feet, on the south 437½ feet, on the east 437½ feet, and on the west 437½ feet.

My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping.”

All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; in addition there were a great many open villages.

You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.

In my distress I cried out to the Lord. The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place.

“Son of man, turn toward the south, and speak out against the south. Prophesy against the open scrub land of the Negev,

Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.

So he was staying with them, associating openly with them in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

“I will turn Samaria into a heap of ruins in an open field – vineyards will be planted there! I will tumble the rubble of her stone walls down into the valley, and tear down her fortifications to their foundations.