Psalms 69:5

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

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

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

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;

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,

to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

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

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

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

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.”

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

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.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their offspring, whether they were of Israel:

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

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

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

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.

This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

So I will break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.

“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

“ ‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments which Yahweh has spoken to Moses—

All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

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.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.