O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just. For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

You have examined my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and found nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

For You have tried us, O God; You have refined us, as silver is refined.

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.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps?

let me be weighed on just scales, that God may know my integrity.

But, O Jehovah of Hosts, who tries the righteous and sees the soul and the heart, let me see Your vengeance on them. For I have made my cause known to You.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, It is My people, and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.