Vindicate Me, O LORD
Psalms 26:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.Hebrew my kidneys
- KJV
- Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
- WEB
- Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
- ASV
- Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.
- LSV
- Try me, O YHWH, and prove me, || My reins and my heart [are] purified,
- YLT
- Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified [are] my reins and my heart.
- DBY
- Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:
- DRC25:2
- Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.
- GNV
- Proue me, O Lord, and trie mee: examine my reines, and mine heart.
- JPS
- Examine me, O LORD, and try me; test my reins and my heart.
- LXXE25:2
- Prove me, O Lord, and try me; purify as with fire my reins and my heart.
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads צָרְופָ֖ה; read aloud (Qere) reads צָרְפָ֖ה (“test”).
- Written (Ketiv): צְרוֹפָה. Read aloud (Qere): צָרְפָ֖ה (“test”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- בְּחָנֵ֣נִי יְהוָ֣ה וְנַסֵּ֑נִי צרופה כִלְיוֹתַ֣י וְלִבִּֽי׃Read aloud as (qere): צָרְפָ֖ה
- LXX-Br25:2
- Δοκίμασόν με, Κύριε, καὶ πείρασόν με, πύρωσον τοὺς νεφρούς μου καὶ τὴν καρδίαν μου.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 139:23–24Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
- Psalms 7:9Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
- Psalms 17:3You 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.
- Zechariah 13:9This 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…
- Psalms 66:10For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
- Job 31:4–6Does He not see my ways and count my every step? If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit, let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
- Jeremiah 20:12O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
- Job 13:23How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 25:2 in some Bibles
- 26:2 in most Bibles