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2Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
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Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: …
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
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.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul and his party, who, to give some colour to their unjust rage, represented him as a very bad man, and falsely accused him of many high crimes and misdemeanors, dressed him up in the skins of wild beasts that they might bait him. Innocency itself is no fence to the name, though it is to the bosom, against the darts of calumny…
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