Psalms 16:7

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.