Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and mind.
How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
If you try my heart, if you visit me by night, if you test me, you will find no wickedness in me; my mouth does not transgress.
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.
O Lord of hosts, you test the righteous; you see the heart and the mind; let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have committed my cause.
And I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”