Psalms 17:3
Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast thought of me in the night; thou hast refined me—thou couldst find nothing: my purpose doth not pass beyond [the words of] my mouth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2Let from thy presence my sentence come forth; let thy eyes behold what is right.
4Among the deeds of men did I observe, by the word of thy lips, the paths of the dissolute.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day thy eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave, and some one said that I should kill thee: but my soul felt compassion for thee: and I said, I will not stretch forth my hand against my Lord; because he is the anointed of the Lord.
1 Samuel 26:11Far be this from me for the sake of the Lord, that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lord's anointed; but now, I pray thee, take thou the spear that is by his head, and the cruise of water, and let us go our way.
1 Chronicles 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with an entire heart and with a willing soul; for all hearts doth the Lord search, and every imagination of the thoughts doth he understand; if thou seek him, he will let himself be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Job 23:10But he knoweth the way that I take: were he to probe me, I should come forth as gold.
Psalms 7:4(7:5) If I have recompensed him that was at peace with me with evil; If I have taken aught from my assailants without cause:
Psalms 16:7I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: also in the night seasons my reins admonish me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 17:2-8
Sincere and Importunate Prayer. 1 Hear the right, O Lord , attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. 3 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. 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my goings… Read the whole commentary →