Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Examine me, O Lord, and try me;
Test my mind and my heart.

King James Version

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Holman Bible

Test me, Lord, and try me;
examine my heart and mind.

International Standard Version

Examine me, LORD, and inspect me! Test my heart and mind.

A Conservative Version

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

American Standard Version

Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.

Amplified


Examine me, O Lord, and try me;
Test my heart and my mind.

Bible in Basic English

Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

Darby Translation

Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:

Julia Smith Translation

Prove me, O Jehovah, and try me; refine my reins and my heart

King James 2000

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my heart and my mind.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me. Try my {innermost being} and my {mind}.

Modern King James verseion

Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; purify my heart and my mind.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me: try out my reins and my heart.

NET Bible

Examine me, O Lord, and test me! Evaluate my inner thoughts and motives!

New Heart English Bible

Examine me, LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

The Emphasized Bible

Try me, O Yahweh, and prove me, Test my reins and my heart: -

Webster

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

World English Bible

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 26:2

References

Morish

Smith

Images Psalm 26:2

Context Readings

Prayer For Vindication

1 ([Psalm of David]) Vindicate me, O Jehovah, because I have walked with (a life-style of) integrity and I have trusted you without wavering. 2 Examine me, O Lord, and try me;
Test my mind and my heart.
3 Your loving-kindness is in front of me. I walk in your truth.

Cross References

Psalm 7:9

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end. Establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.

Psalm 17:3

You have probed my heart. You have confronted me at night. You have tested me like silver, but you found nothing wrong. I have decided that my mouth will not sin.

Job 13:23

How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my transgressions and my sin.

Job 31:4-6

Does he not see my ways and count my every step?

Psalm 66:10

You have tested us, O God. You have refined us in the same way silver is refined.

Psalm 139:23-24

Examine me, O God, and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious (troubled) (painful) (disturbing) thoughts.

Jeremiah 20:12

Yet, O Jehovah of Hosts you test the righteous. You see the mind and the heart. Let me see your vengeance on them for to you I have revealed my cause.

Zechariah 13:9

I will bring the third part into the fire. I will refine them, as silver is refined, and I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: 'It is my people!' They will say: 'Jehovah is my God!'

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