'Heart' in the Bible

Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye thus in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.

Thou hast given joy in my heart, From the time their corn and their wine Have been multiplied.

For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

My shield is on God, Saviour of the upright in heart!

To the Overseer, 'On the Death of Labben.' -- A Psalm of David. I confess, O Jehovah, with all my heart, I recount all Thy wonders,

He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'

The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow in my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me?

And I, in Thy kindness I have trusted, Rejoice doth my heart in Thy salvation.

To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

Therefore hath my heart been glad, And my honour doth rejoice, Also my flesh dwelleth confidently:

Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.

The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes,

Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

He doth give to thee according to thy heart, And all thy counsel doth fulfil.

The desire of his heart Thou gavest to him, And the request of his lips Thou hast not withheld. Selah.

As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

The humble do eat and are satisfied, Praise Jehovah do those seeking Him, Your heart doth live for ever.

The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

The distresses of my heart have enlarged themselves, From my distresses bring me out.

Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified are my reins and my heart.

Though a host doth encamp against me, My heart doth not fear, Though war riseth up against me, In this I am confident.

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

Look unto Jehovah -- be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

Jehovah is my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.

Be strong, and He strengtheneth your heart, All ye who are waiting for Jehovah!

Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice, ye righteous, And sing, all ye upright of heart!

The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.

For in Him doth our heart rejoice, For in His holy name we have trusted.

Near is Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.

They do not say in their heart, 'Aha, our desire.' They do not say, 'We swallowed him up.'

To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, 'Fear of God is not before his eyes,

Draw out Thy kindness to those knowing Thee, And Thy righteousness to the upright of heart.

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.

The law of his God is his heart, His steps do not slide.

I have been feeble and smitten -- unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

My heart is panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.

Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.

To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.

Thy righteousness I have not concealed In the midst of my heart, Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation I have told, I have not hidden Thy kindness and Thy truth, To the great assembly.

For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.

And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh.

We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.

Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies.' -- By sons of Korah. -- An Instruction. -- A song of loves. My heart hath indited a good thing, I am telling my works to a king, My tongue is the pen of a speedy writer.

Thine arrows are sharp, -- Peoples fall under Thee -- In the heart of the enemies of the king.

Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas.

Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,

My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart are things of understanding.

Their heart is: Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

To the Overseer. -- 'On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.

Prepared is my heart, O God, Prepared is my heart, I sing and praise.

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

From the end of the land unto Thee I call, In the feebleness of my heart, Into a rock higher than I Thou dost lead me.

Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.

Trust in Him at all times, O people, Pour forth before Him your heart, God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!

Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.

The humble have seen -- they rejoice, Ye who seek God -- and your heart liveth.

A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

Spoiled themselves have the mighty of heart, They have slept their sleep, And none of the men of might found their hands.

I remember my music in the night, With my heart I meditate, and my spirit doth search diligently:

And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.

And he ruleth them according to the integrity of his heart, And by the skilfulness of his hands leadeth them!

And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,

My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,

O the happiness of a man whose strength is in Thee, Highways are in their heart.

Show me, O Jehovah, Thy way, I walk in Thy truth, My heart doth rejoice to fear Thy name.

I confess Thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And I honour Thy name to the age.

To number our days aright let us know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,

Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, 'A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'

Light is sown for the righteous, And for the upright of heart -- joy.

I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house.

A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not.

Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

And wine -- it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread -- the heart of man it supporteth.