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

My mind recalls your word, "Seek my face," so your face, LORD, I will seek.

But the LORD's counsel stands firm forever, the plans in his mind for all generations.

Indeed, every animal of the forest is mine, even the cattle on a thousand hills.

I know all the birds in the mountains; indeed, everything that moves in the field is mine.

"If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine along with everything in it.

For the arrogant have arisen against me; oppressors have sought to take my life. They do not keep God in mind! Interlude

Look, they lie in ambush for my life; these violent men gather together against me, but not because of any transgression or sin of mine, LORD.

Gilead belongs to me, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim is my helmet, and Judah my scepter.

Their eyes bulge from obesity and the imaginations of their mind cross the border into sin.

My body and mind may fail, but God is my strength and my portion forever.

I will not allow anyone with a perverted mind in my presence; I will not be involved with anything evil.

Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts.

As a result, my spirit is desolate within me, and my mind within me is appalled.