You have tested my heart;(A)
You have examined me at night.
You have tried me and found nothing evil;(B)
I have determined that my mouth will not sin.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 17:3 Or [evil]; my mouth will not sin

Though you probe my heart,(A)
    though you examine me at night and test me,(B)
you will find that I have planned no evil;(C)
    my mouth has not transgressed.(D)

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Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

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21 wouldn’t God have found this out,
since He knows the secrets of the heart?(A)

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21 would not God have discovered it,
    since he knows the secrets of the heart?(A)

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

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As for You, Lord, You know me; You see me.(A)
You test whether my heart is with You.(B)
Drag the wicked away like sheep to slaughter(C)
and set them apart for the day of killing.

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Yet you know me, Lord;
    you see me and test(A) my thoughts about you.
Drag them off like sheep(B) to be butchered!
    Set them apart for the day of slaughter!(C)

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But thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

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