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

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.