(A)But you, O Lord, know me;
    (B)you see me, and test my heart toward you.
(C)Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
    and set them apart for (D)the day of slaughter.

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18 (A)Let those be put to shame who persecute me,
    but let me not be put to shame;
(B)let them be dismayed,
    but let me not be dismayed;
(C)bring upon them the day of disaster;
    destroy them with double destruction!

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“Now, O Lord, (A)please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and (B)with a whole heart, (C)and have done what is good in your sight.” (D)And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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(A)You have lived on the earth in luxury and (B)in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in (C)a day of slaughter.

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Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

139 O Lord, you have (A)searched me and known me!
You (B)know when I sit down and when I rise up;
    you (C)discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
    and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
    behold, O Lord, (D)you know it altogether.

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You have (A)tried my heart, you have (B)visited me by (C)night,
    you have (D)tested me, and you will find nothing;
    I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

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27 Kill all (A)her bulls;
    let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, for their day has come,
    (B)the time of their punishment.

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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
    (A)Try me and know my thoughts![a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:23 Or cares

21 (A)would not God discover this?
    (B)For he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Yet (C)for your sake we are killed all the day long;
    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

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I Will Bless the Lord

Of David.

26 (A)Vindicate me, O Lord,
    for I have (B)walked in my integrity,
    and I have (C)trusted in the Lord without wavering.

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20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 21 Beloved, (A)if our heart does not condemn us, (B)we have confidence before God;

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17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him (A)the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, (B)you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed (C)my sheep.

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They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
    (A)and wounded in her streets.

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15 The destroyer of (A)Moab and his cities has come up,
    and the choicest of his young men have (B)gone down to slaughter,
    declares (C)the King, (D)whose name is the Lord of hosts.

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12 O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous,
    (A)who sees the heart and the mind,[a]
let me see your vengeance upon them,
    for to you have I committed my cause.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 20:12 Hebrew kidneys

21 Therefore (A)deliver up their children to famine;
    give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless (B)and widowed.
    May their men meet death by pestilence,
    their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
22 (C)May a cry be heard from their houses,
    when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them!
For (D)they have dug a pit to take me
    (E)and laid snares for my feet.
23 Yet (F)you, O Lord, know
    all their plotting to kill me.
(G)Forgive not their iniquity,
    nor blot out their sin from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
    deal with them in the time of your anger.

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19 But I was (A)like a gentle lamb
    led to the slaughter.
I did not know (B)it was against me
    they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
    (C)let us cut him off from (D)the land of the living,
    that his name be remembered no more.”
20 But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously,
    who (E)tests (F)the heart and the mind,
(G)let me see your vengeance upon them,
    for to you have I committed my cause.

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The Lord (A)tests the righteous,
    but (B)his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

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Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    and may you establish the righteous—
you who (A)test (B)the minds and hearts,[a]
    O righteous God!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:9 Hebrew the hearts and kidneys

17 I know, my God, (A)that you test the heart and (B)have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

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