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!

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13 And (A)no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are (B)naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

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(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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21 (A)would not God discover this?
    (B)For he knows the secrets of the heart.

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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

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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The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it?
10 (A)“I the Lord search the heart
    (B)and test the mind,[a]
(C)to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:10 Hebrew kidneys

David's Charge to Solomon

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a (A)whole heart and with a willing mind, (B)for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. (C)If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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39 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ((A)for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),

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23 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he (A)who searches mind and heart, and (B)I will give to each of you according to your works.

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(A)The Lord is in his holy temple;
    the Lord's (B)throne is in heaven;
    his eyes see, his eyelids (C)test the children of man.
The Lord (D)tests the righteous,
    but (E)his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

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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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To the Church in Thyatira

18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, (A)who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

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