Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

Then thought I to understand this; but it was too hard for me,

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

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

Thou bringest out fountains and waters out of the hard rocks; thou driest up mighty rivers.

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

Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

{To the Chanter, for Jeduthun, a Psalm of Asaph} I cried unto God with my voice; yea, even unto God cried I with my voice, and he heard me.

In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

When I was in heaviness, I thought upon God: when my heart was vexed, then did I speak. Selah.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

He clove the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them like a herd in the wilderness.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

When thou calledest upon me in trouble, I delivered thee, and heard thee, what time as the storm fell upon thee. I proved thee also at the waters of strife. Selah.

And my people heard not to my voice; and Israel was not inclined to me.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

Would that my people heard to me! Israel shall go in my ways.

For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.

I will hear, what GOD - Yahweh - will speak, - For he will bespeak prosperity to his people, And to his men of lovingkindness, And to them who return with their heart unto him.

Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

The enemy shall not overcome him, and the son of wickedness shall not hurt him.

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants [scorned, insulted, and disgraced];
How I bear in my heart the reproach of all the many peoples,

You have placed our wickedness before you,
Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.

So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.

They shall bear thee in their hands, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.

Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.

Mine eye also hath seen my desire on mine enemies, Mine ears have heard my desire of the evil-doers that rise up against me.

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart, thy comforts have refreshed my soul.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among such as call upon his name: these called upon the LORD, and he heard them.

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

For He knows our [mortal] frame;
He remembers that we are [merely] dust.

And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded and established to a thousand generations,

He suffered no man to hurt them, but reproved even kings for their sakes,

"Don't touch my anointed or hurt my prophets!"

Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

Who can relate the mighty deeds of Yahweh? can cause to be heard, all his praise?

And they will murmur in their tents; they heard not to the voice of Jehovah.

They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;

Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

Their soul abhorred all manner of meat, and they were even hard at death's door.

{A Song or Psalm of David.} O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.

Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

I called upon the LORD in trouble, and the LORD heard me at large.

Thou hast thrust hard at me that I might fall; but Jehovah helped me.

The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

My soul is crushed with longing
For Your ordinances at all times.

Take away from me shame and bitter words; for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.

I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

Give effect to your word to your servant, in whose heart is the fear of you.

This has been true of me, that I have kept your orders in my heart.

I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

My heart has not been turned away from your decisions; for you have been my teacher.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.