Psalms 139:23

21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

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

24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
KJV
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
WEB
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
ASV
Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;
DARBY
Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
BLB
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me, and know my thoughts.
ÅB
Ransak meg, Gud, og kjenn mitt hjerte! Prøv meg og kjenn mine mangehånde tanker,
OTB
Ransak meg, Gud, og kjenn mitt hjerte;
Prøv meg og kjenn mine urolige tanker;
B1930
Ransak mig, Gud, og kjenn mitt hjerte! Prøv mig og kjenn mine mangehånde tanker,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 26:2

    Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

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  • Job 31:6

    Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

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  • 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:

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  • Proverbs 17:3

    The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

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  • 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.

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  • Psalms 139:1

    O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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