Then give ear from heaven your living-place, answering with forgiveness, and give to every man, whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; (for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of the children of men;)
And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.
And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.
The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.
Then Hezekiah made answer and said, Now that you have given yourselves to the Lord, come near and take offerings and praise-offerings into the house of the Lord. So all the people took in offerings and praise-offerings: and those whose hearts were moved, took in burned offerings.
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.
And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.
Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?
You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.
After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;
Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.
Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.
Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)
O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.
Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.
From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.
This is the generation of those whose hearts are turned to you, even to your face, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)
The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.
Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.
Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.
He makes all their hearts; their works are clear to him.
See, the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;
For in him our hearts have joy; in his holy name is our hope.
Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.
But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken.
Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;
Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.
Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)
Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)
The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.
They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.
Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.
Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.
So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.
Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;
Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.
Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.
Their hearts were turned to hate against his people, so that they made secret designs against them.
Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.
He put pity into the hearts of those who made them prisoners.
So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.
You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.
Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.
For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.
For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.
Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.
If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?
The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.
A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.
Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.
It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.
The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.
Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.
Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.
And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted hearts,
Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.
The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.
Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.
Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;
They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.
Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.
For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:
We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;
And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people whose hearts have been turned back to me.
My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.
At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.
And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder.
And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.
On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.
These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.
Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.
The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:
Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?
But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.
Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.
For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.
Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.
Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.
See, he will come up like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Bozrah: and the hearts of Edom's men of war on that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.
So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind among the nations where they have been taken away as prisoners, how I sent punishment on their hearts which were untrue to me, and on their eyes which were turned to their false gods: and they will be full of hate for themselves because of the evil things which they have done in all their disgusting ways.
Son of man, be a prophet against the prophets of Israel, and say to those prophets whose words are the invention of their hearts, Give ear to the word of the Lord;
Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?
So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.
Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.
In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.
And as for you, son of man, your mouth will be shut in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which their hearts are fixed, and their sons and daughters.
And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you.
And as for these two kings, their hearts will be fixed on doing evil and they will say false words at one table; but it will come to nothing: for the end will be at the time fixed.
For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.
And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.
When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.
I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.
Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:
And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.
And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.
And the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of Jerusalem have their strength in the Lord of armies, their God.
And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.
Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.
Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the holy Spirit and with fire:
From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.
He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.
John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.
And saying, The time has come, and the kingdom of God is near: let your hearts be turned from sin and have faith in the good news.
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