'Heart' in the Bible

Thou hast put joy in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their new wine was in abundance.

My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.} I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart; I will recount all thy marvellous works.

He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity.

He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see it.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast established their heart: thou causest thine ear to hear,

For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the upright in heart.

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

As for me, I have confided in thy loving-kindness; my heart shall be joyful in thy salvation.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

Therefore my heart rejoiceth, and my glory exulteth; my flesh moreover shall dwell in hope.

Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.

The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.

Grant thee according to thy heart, and fulfil all thy counsels.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

He that hath blameless hands and a pure heart; who lifteth not up his soul unto vanity, nor sweareth deceitfully:

The troubles of my heart are increased: bring me out of my distresses;

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

If a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; if war rise against me, in this will I be confident.

My heart said for thee, Seek ye my face. Thy face, O Jehovah, will I seek.

Wait for Jehovah; be strong and let thy heart take courage: yea, wait for Jehovah.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, and mischief is in their heart.

Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in him, and I was helped: therefore my heart exulteth, and with my song will I praise him.

I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah.

Rejoice in Jehovah, and be glad, ye righteous; and shout for joy, all ye upright in heart.

The counsel of Jehovah standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

For in him shall our heart rejoice, because we have confided in his holy name.

Jehovah is nigh to those that are of a broken heart, and saveth them that are of a contrite spirit.

Let them not say in their heart, Aha! so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of the servant of Jehovah; of David.} The transgression of the wicked uttereth within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Continue thy loving-kindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart;

and delight thyself in Jehovah, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

the law of his God is in his heart; his goings shall not slide.

I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation of my heart.

My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.

My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,

To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.

I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me.

And if one come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;

Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Thine arrows are sharp peoples fall under thee in the heart of the king's enemies.

Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the heart of the seas;

My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding:

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

{To the chief Musician. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Smooth were the milky words of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Confide in him at all times, ye people; pour out your heart before him: God is our refuge. Selah.

Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.

They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep.

The righteous shall rejoice in Jehovah, and trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

The meek shall see it, they shall be glad; ye that seek God, your heart shall live.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart.

Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:

Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:

When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins,

My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.

They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.

I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart, and my spirit maketh diligent search.

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

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

For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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 Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, they, in whose heart are the highways.

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

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

So teach us to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.

For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

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

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

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

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. When wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.

A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will not know evil.

Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.

And wine which gladdeneth the heart of man; making his face shine with oil; and with bread he strengtheneth man's heart.

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

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

And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:

{A Song, a Psalm of David.} My heart is fixed, O God: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms, even with my glory.

Because he remembered not to shew kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay him.

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

Hallelujah! I will celebrate Jehovah with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the assembly.