Jeremiah 12:3
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3 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.
Jeremiah 17:18
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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!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:18 Lit. crush
2 Kings 20:3
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3 (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.
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James 5:5
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5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and [a]luxury; you have [b]fattened your hearts [c]as in a day of slaughter.
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Psalm 139:1-4
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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.
2 (B)You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You (C)understand my thought afar off.
3 (D)You [a]comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O Lord, (E)You know it altogether.
Footnotes
- Psalm 139:3 Lit. winnow
Psalm 17:3
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3 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.
Footnotes
- Psalm 17:3 examined
- Psalm 17:3 Nothing evil
Jeremiah 50:27
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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.
Psalm 139:23
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23 (A)Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
Psalm 44:21-22
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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.
Psalm 26:1
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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.
Job 23:10
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1 John 3:20-21
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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.
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John 21:17
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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.
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- John 21:17 NU John
- John 21:17 have affection for
Jeremiah 51:4
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4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
(A)And those thrust through in her streets.
Jeremiah 48:15
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15 Moab is plundered and gone up from her cities;
Her chosen young men have (A)gone down to the slaughter,” says (B)the King,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 20:12
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12 But, O Lord of hosts,
You who (A)test the righteous,
And see the [a]mind and heart,
(B)Let me see Your vengeance on them;
For I have pleaded my cause before You.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 20:12 Most secret parts, lit. kidneys
Jeremiah 18:21-23
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21 Therefore (A)deliver up their children to the famine,
And pour out their blood
By the force of the sword;
Let their wives become widows
And (B)bereaved of their children.
Let their men be put to death,
Their young men be slain
By the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses,
When You bring a troop suddenly upon them;
For they have dug a pit to take me,
And hidden snares for my feet.
23 Yet, Lord, You know all their counsel
Which is against me, to slay me.
(C)Provide no atonement for their iniquity,
Nor blot out their sin from Your sight;
But let them be overthrown before You.
Deal thus with them
In the time of Your (D)anger.
Jeremiah 11:19-20
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19 But I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, (A)and let us cut him off from (B)the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
20 But, O Lord of hosts,
You who judge righteously,
(C)Testing the [a]mind and the heart,
Let me see Your (D)vengeance on them,
For to You I have revealed my cause.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 11:20 Most secret parts, lit. kidneys
Psalm 11:5
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5 The Lord (A)tests the righteous,
But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
Psalm 7:9
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9 Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
But establish the just;
(A)For the righteous God tests the hearts and [a]minds.
Footnotes
- Psalm 7:9 Lit. kidneys, the most secret part of man
1 Chronicles 29:17
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17 I know also, my God, that You (A)test the heart and (B)have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things; and now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to offer willingly to You.
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