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Psalms 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

KJV

Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;

ASV

חָקְרֵ֣/נִי אֵ֭ל וְ/דַ֣ע לְבָבִ֑/י בְּ֝חָנֵ֗/נִי וְ/דַ֣ע שַׂרְעַפָּֽ/י

Hebrew

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

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֣ל
'l
noun · 244×
וֹ
v
noun · 251×
י
y
pronoun · 2×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
נִי
ny
verb · 29×
נֶחְקַ֖ר
nchqr
verb · 27×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. David meditates on the omniscience and omnipresence of God. There is no place where God is not present, no thought which he does not know. The description of being fearfully and wonderfully made in the womb is a powerful testimony to God as Creator of each person. This knowledge is both comforting to the godly and terrifying to the w…

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 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:
  • 2Cor 13:5 — Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
  • Deut 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
  • Deut 8:16 — Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
  • Exod 33:5 — For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 12:3 — But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Jer 17:10 — I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
  • Jer 20:12 — But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
  • Job 9:21 — Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
  • Job 10:2 — I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
  • Job 13:9 — Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
  • Job 13:23 — How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
  • Job 31:6 — Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
  • Job 31:6 — Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
  • Job 34:21 — For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
  • Job 34:32 — That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
  • John 3:21 — But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
  • Lam 3:40 — Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
  • Luke 9:47 — And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
  • Mal 3:2 — But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
  • Prov 4:23 — Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
  • Prov 12:5 — The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
  • Prov 17:3 — The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
  • Ps 11:5 — The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
  • Ps 19:12 — Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
  • Ps 26:2 — Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
  • Ps 26:2 — Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
  • Ps 77:6 — I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
  • Ps 139:1 — O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
  • Ps 139:1 — O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
  • Zech 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