Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you shall not exalt them.
My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
“Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.
For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
“But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
“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,
“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
“Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.
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.
He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.
You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
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.
May He grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.
You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.
When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.
Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
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 our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
An inner sanctuary is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.
The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
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:












