551 verses about thoughts

but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”

Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

“Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’

Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,

Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

Saul’s servants said to him, “See now, an evil spirit from God troubles you.

Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”

Saul watched David from that day and forward.

Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”

David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

Afterward, David’s heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.

As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”

Amnon was so troubled that he became sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.

Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.

Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’

then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

“Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

“But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.