But You, O Lord, (A)know me;
You have seen me,
And You have (B)tested my heart toward You.
Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
And prepare them for (C)the day of slaughter.

Read full chapter

Yet you know me, Lord;
    you see me and test(A) my thoughts about you.
Drag them off like sheep(B) to be butchered!
    Set them apart for the day of slaughter!(C)

Read full chapter

18 (A)Let them be ashamed who persecute me,
But (B)do not let me be put to shame;
Let them be dismayed,
But do not let me be dismayed.
Bring on them the day of doom,
And (C)destroy[a] them with double destruction!

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:18 Lit. crush

18 Let my persecutors be put to shame,
    but keep me from shame;
let them be terrified,
    but keep me from terror.
Bring on them the day of disaster;
    destroy them with double destruction.(A)

Read full chapter

(A)“Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Read full chapter

“Remember,(A) Lord, how I have walked(B) before you faithfully(C) and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Read full chapter

You have lived on the earth in pleasure and [a]luxury; you have [b]fattened your hearts [c]as in a day of slaughter.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. James 5:5 indulgence
  2. James 5:5 Lit. nourished
  3. James 5:5 NU omits as

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves(A) in the day of slaughter.[a](B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. James 5:5 Or yourselves as in a day of feasting

God’s Perfect Knowledge of Man

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

139 O Lord, (A)You have searched me and known me.
(B)You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You (C)understand my thought afar off.
(D)You [a]comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O Lord, (E)You know it altogether.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:3 Lit. winnow

Psalm 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

You have searched me,(A) Lord,
    and you know(B) me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;(C)
    you perceive my thoughts(D) from afar.
You discern my going out(E) and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.(F)
Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.(G)

Read full chapter

You have tested my heart;
You have visited me in the night;
(A)You have [a]tried me and have found [b]nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth shall not (B)transgress.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 17:3 examined
  2. Psalm 17:3 Nothing evil

Though you probe my heart,(A)
    though you examine me at night and test me,(B)
you will find that I have planned no evil;(C)
    my mouth has not transgressed.(D)

Read full chapter

27 Slay all her (A)bulls,
Let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them!
For their day has come, the time of (B)their punishment.

Read full chapter

27 Kill all her young bulls;(A)
    let them go down to the slaughter!(B)
Woe to them! For their day(C) has come,
    the time(D) for them to be punished.

Read full chapter

23 (A)Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;

Read full chapter

23 Search me,(A) God, and know my heart;(B)
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Read full chapter

21 (A)Would not God search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22 (B)Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Read full chapter

21 would not God have discovered it,
    since he knows the secrets of the heart?(A)
22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep(B) to be slaughtered.(C)

Read full chapter

A Prayer for Divine Scrutiny and Redemption

A Psalm of David.

26 Vindicate (A)me, O Lord,
For I have (B)walked in my integrity.
(C)I have also trusted in the Lord;
I shall not slip.

Read full chapter

Psalm 26

Of David.

Vindicate me,(A) Lord,
    for I have led a blameless life;(B)
I have trusted(C) in the Lord
    and have not faltered.(D)

Read full chapter

10 But (A)He knows the way that I take;
When (B)He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

Read full chapter

10 But he knows the way that I take;(A)
    when he has tested me,(B) I will come forth as gold.(C)

Read full chapter

20 (A)For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, (B)we have confidence toward God.

Read full chapter

20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends,(A) if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God(B)

Read full chapter

17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of [a]Jonah, do you [b]love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?”

And he said to Him, “Lord, (A)You know all things; You know that I love You.”

Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. John 21:17 NU John
  2. John 21:17 have affection for

17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”

Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?”(A) He said, “Lord, you know all things;(B) you know that I love you.”

Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.(C)

Read full chapter