Psalms 139:23 · KJV
“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:”
— Psalms 139:23
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
And see if {there be any} wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. {wicked...: Heb. way of pain, or, grief}
Psalms 139 — Context
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24And see if {there be any} wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. {wicked...: Heb. way of pain, or, grief}
Cross References
Psalms 26:2
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Job 31:6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}
Proverbs 17:3
The fining pot {is} for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, {and} to prove thee, to know what {was} in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Psalms 139:1
[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known {me}.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It {is} my people: and they shall say, The LORD {is} my God.
Jeremiah 11:20
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.