Search me, O Mighty God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties;

and find out if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way eternal.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely shall be delivered.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

I Jehovah search the heart, I examine the soul, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my body.

I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Why then do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me diligently, but I will no longer be.