Psalm 17:3 “You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have te…”

Psalm 17:3

You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou hast prooued and visited mine heart in the night: thou hast tryed me, and foundest nothing: for I was purposed that my mouth should not offend.

Darby Translation

Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.

Young's Literal Translation

Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.

Bible in Basic English

You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.

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Cross references

“proved”

Job 23:10 Psalm 26:2 Malachi 3:2 Psalm 66:10 Psalm 139:1 Zechariah 13:9

Job 23:10 · BSB

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

Psalm 26:2 · BSB

Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.

Malachi 3:2 · BSB

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.

Psalm 66:10 · BSB

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

Psalm 139:1 · BSB

O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

Zechariah 13:9 · BSB

This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our G…

“thou hast”

Psalm 16:7 Job 24:14 Hosea 7:6 Micah 2:1 Acts 16:9 Acts 18:9

Psalm 16:7 · BSB

I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me.

Job 24:14 · BSB

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

Hosea 7:6 · BSB

For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Micah 2:1 · BSB

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Acts 16:9 · BSB

During the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and pleading with him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

Acts 18:9 · BSB

One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent.

“shalt”

Psalm 44:17–21 1 Samuel 24:12 1 Samuel 26:23 Psalm 7:4 1 Samuel 24:10 2 Corinthians 1:12

Psalm 44:17–21 · BSB

All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

1 Samuel 24:12 · BSB

May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD take vengeance on you, but my hand will never be against you.

1 Samuel 26:23 · BSB

May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not extend my hand against the LORD’s anointed.

Psalm 7:4 · BSB

if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

1 Samuel 24:10 · BSB

Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s…

2 Corinthians 1:12 · BSB

For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of…

“I am”

Acts 11:23 Psalm 39:1 Psalm 119:106 Proverbs 13:3 James 3:2

Acts 11:23 · BSB

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.

Psalm 39:1 · BSB

I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

Psalm 119:106 · BSB

I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

Proverbs 13:3 · BSB

He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.

James 3:2 · BSB

We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.

Also

Jeremiah 50:20

Jeremiah 50:20 · BSB

In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right.

4As for the deeds of men— by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.

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