Psalm 17:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ You have examined my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me – You find I have not schemed; My mouth would not transgress.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me and find nothing [no evil purpose in me]; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Common English Bible

³ You have examined my heart, testing me at night. You’ve looked me over closely, but haven’t found anything wrong. My mouth doesn’t sin.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my liberator. My God is my helper, and I hope in him: my protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Psalm 17:3 Cross References

Psalm 26:2

Examine me, O יהוה, and prove me; Try my kidneys and my heart.

Acts 11:23

who, having come, and seeing the favour of Elohim, was glad, and encouraged them all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Master.

Psalm 39:1

I have said,”Let me guard my ways Against sinning with my tongue; Let me guard my mouth with a muzzle, While the wrongdoer is before me.”

Job 23:10

For He knows the way that I take. When He has tried me, I would come forth as gold.

Malachi 3:2

“And who is able to bear the day of His coming, and who is able to stand when He appears? For He is like the fire of a refiner, and like the soap of a launderer.

Zechariah 13:9

“And I shall bring the third into fire, and refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My Name, and I shall answer them. I shall say, ‘This is My people,’ while they say, ‘יהוה is my Elohim.’ ”

Psalm 139:1

O יהוה, You have searched me And know me.

Psalm 119:106

I have sworn, and I confirm, To guard Your righteous right-rulings.

Psalm 66:10

For You, O Elohim, have proved us; You have refined us as silver is refined.

1 Peter 1:7

in order that the proving of your belief – much more precious than gold that perishes, and proven by fire – might be found to result in praise and respect and esteem at the revelation of יהושע Messiah,

Micah 2:1

Woe to those plotting wickedness, and working out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they practise it, because it is in the might of their hand.

Hosea 7:6

“For they have drawn near, their heart is like an oven. While they lie in wait all the night their baker sleeps. In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

Jeremiah 50:20

“In those days and at that time,” declares יהוה, “the crookedness of Yisra’ĕl shall be searched for, but there shall be none; and the sin of Yehuḏah, but none shall be found. For I shall pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

Proverbs 13:3

He who watches over his mouth guards his being, But he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Psalm 16:7

I bless יהוה who has given me counsel; My kidneys also instruct me in the nights.

Psalm 11:5

יהוה tries the righteous, But His being shall hate the wrong And the one who loves violence.

Psalm 7:4

If I have done evil to him who was at peace with me, Or have plundered my enemy without cause,

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at daylight, he kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is as a thief.

1 Samuel 26:23

“And let יהוה reward every man for his righteousness and his trustworthiness, for this day יהוה gave you into my hand, but I would not stretch out my hand against the anointed of יהוה.

1 Samuel 24:12

“Let יהוה judge between you and me, and let יהוה revenge me on you, but my hand is not against you.

Acts 16:9

And in the night a vision appeared to Sha’ul: A man of Makedonia was standing, begging him and saying, “Come over to Makedonia and help us.”

1 Samuel 24:10

“See, this day your eyes have seen that יהוה gave you today into my hand in the cave, and one said to kill you. But my eye pardoned you, and I said, ‘I do not stretch out my hand against my master, for he is the anointed of יהוה.’

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many matters. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the entire body.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boasting is this: the witness of our conscience that we behaved ourselves in the world in simplicity and sincerity of Elohim, not in fleshly wisdom but in the favour of Elohim, and much more toward you.

1 Corinthians 4:4

For I am not conscious of any matter against myself, yet I am not declared right by this, but He who judges me is יהוה.

1 Samuel 26:11

far be it from me, by יהוה, that I stretch out my hand against the anointed of יהוה. And now, please take the spear and the jug of water that are by his head, and let us go.”

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, my son Shelomoh, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a pleasing life, for יהוה searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you do seek Him, He is found by you; but if you forsake Him, He rejects you forever.

1 Chronicles 29:17

“And I know, my Elohim, that You are trying the heart and desire uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have voluntarily given all these. And now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to give voluntarily to You.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O Ěl, and know my heart; Try me, and know my thoughts;

Jeremiah 12:3

But You have known me, O יהוה. You see me, and You have tried my heart toward You. Draw them away like sheep for slaughter, and separate them for the day of slaughter.