נָבַט

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.

With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

When the Philistine looked around, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good looking face.

David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect.

He said to his servant, “Go up now, and look toward the sea.” He went up, and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.

He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.

Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.

As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.

From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;

He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.