Psalms 94:9

“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.”

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

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

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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.

He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

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

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

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.

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

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

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 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.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

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.’ ”

but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

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

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

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.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

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—

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.

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

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

Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.

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.

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

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

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.

Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

“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;

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest?

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.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

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.

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

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?