[That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.
And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered.
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit [done] unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
Howbeit in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was [done] in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all [that was] in his heart.
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.
And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do [it], and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
Blessed [be] the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put [such a thing] as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem:
Wherefore the king said unto me, Why [is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou [art] not sick? this [is] nothing [else] but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I [any] man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither [was there any] beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give [it, I say], to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou [art] righteous:
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened [himself] against him, and hath prospered?
And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is] with thee.
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness [where there is] no way.
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
My words [shall be of] the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
If he set his heart upon man, [if] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any [that are] wise of heart.
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone].
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time [that] their corn and their wine increased.
My defence [is] of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David. I will praise [thee], O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] never [be] in adversity.
He hath said 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].
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good.
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
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.
The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of my distresses.
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be] confident.
[When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart.
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes.
O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] spake I with my tongue,
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
And if he come to see [me], he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.
Thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; [whereby] the people fall under thee.
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart [shall be] of understanding.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right 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 upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good.
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
[The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were] they drawn swords.
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.
Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.
The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear [me]:
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.
The humble shall see [this, and] be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart.
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
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.
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
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.
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
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].
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.
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
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:
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
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.
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 turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtly with his servants.
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and [there was] none to help.
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 show 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.
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.
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.
I entreated 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.
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.
KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
[A Psalm] of David. I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.
Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth.
They that are of a froward heart [are] abomination to the LORD: but [such as are] upright in [their] way [are] his delight.
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise of heart.
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.
A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth [is] heaviness.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but [that which is] in the midst of fools is made known.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish [doeth] not so.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast.
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones fat.
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, [is] from the LORD.
Every one [that is] proud in heart [is] an abomination to the LORD: [though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
Wherefore [is there] a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he hath] no heart [to it]?
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour [is] humility.
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
[There are] many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
The king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
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