551 verses about Thoughts

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.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart shall utter understanding.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.