But, O LORD of hosts, You who judge righteously, Testing the mind and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You I have revealed my cause.

"Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done [what was] good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

"I know also, my God, that You test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these [things;] and now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to offer willingly to You.

But He knows the way that I take; [When] He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

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

A Psalm of David. Vindicate me, O LORD, For I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in the LORD; I shall not slip.

Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known [me.]

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties;

He said to him the third time, "Simon, [son] of Jonah, do you love Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.

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

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.

Let them be ashamed who persecute me, But do not let me be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, But do not let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of doom, And destroy them with double destruction!

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, And pour out their [blood] By the force of the sword; Let their wives [become] widows And bereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, Their young men [be] slain By the sword in battle.

Yet, LORD, You know all their counsel Which is against me, to slay [me.] Provide no atonement for their iniquity, Nor blot out their sin from Your sight; But let them be overthrown before You. Deal [thus] with them In the time of Your anger.

But, O LORD of hosts, You who test the righteous, [And] see the mind and heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them; For I have pleaded my cause before You.

Moab is plundered and gone up [from] her cities; Her chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter," says the King, Whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.

Slay all her bulls, Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, And [those] thrust through in her streets.

But I [was] like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, [saying,] "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more."

Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.