Psalm 139:1-12

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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!
²You ^(B)know when I sit down and when I rise up;
    you ^(C)discern my thoughts from afar.
³You search out my path and my lying down
    and are acquainted with all my ways.
⁴Even before a word is on my tongue,
    behold, O Lord, ^(D)you know it altogether.
⁵You ^(E)hem me in, behind and before,
    and ^(F)lay your hand upon me.
⁶^(G)Such knowledge is ^(H)too wonderful for me;
    it is high; I cannot attain it.

⁷^(I)Where shall I go from your Spirit?
    Or where ^(J)shall I flee from your presence?
⁸^(K)If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
    ^(L)If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
⁹If I take the wings of the morning
    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
¹⁰even there your hand shall ^(M)lead me,
    and your right hand shall hold me.
¹¹If I say, ^(N)“Surely the darkness shall cover me,
    and the light about me be night,”
¹²^(O)even the darkness is not dark to you;
    the night is bright as the day,
    for darkness is as light with you.

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Psalm 139:23-24

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²³Search me, O God, and know my heart!
^(A)Try me and know my thoughts!^[a]
²⁴And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and ^(B)lead me in ^(C)the way everlasting!^[b]

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Footnotes

Psalm 139:23 Or cares
Psalm 139:24 Or in the ancient way (compare Jeremiah 6:16)

Ezekiel 39:21-29

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²¹“And ^(A)I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see ^(B)my judgment that I have executed, and ^(C)my hand that I have laid on them. ²²^(D)The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward. ²³And ^(E)the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that ^(F)I hid my face from them and ^(G)gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. ²⁴I dealt with them ^(H)according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.

The Lord Will Restore Israel

²⁵“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now ^(I)I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on ^(J)the whole house of Israel, and ^(K)I will be jealous for my holy name. ²⁶They shall ^(L)forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when ^(M)they dwell securely in their land with ^(N)none to make them afraid, ²⁷^(O)when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, ^(P)and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations. ²⁸^(Q)Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore. ²⁹^(R)And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when ^(S)I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”

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Hebrews 6:13-20

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The Certainty of God's Promise

¹³For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, ^(A)he swore by himself, ¹⁴saying, ^(B)“Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” ¹⁵And thus Abraham,^[a] ^(C)having patiently waited, obtained the promise. ¹⁶For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes ^(D)an oath is final for confirmation. ¹⁷So when God desired to show more convincingly to ^(E)the heirs of the promise ^(F)the unchangeable character of his purpose, ^(G)he guaranteed it with an oath, ¹⁸so that by two unchangeable things, in which ^(H)it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope ^(I)set before us. ¹⁹We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into ^(J)the inner place behind the curtain, ²⁰where Jesus has gone ^(K)as a forerunner on our behalf, ^(L)having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.