Psalms 26 · Verse 2

Psalms 26:2

Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Psalms 26:2, King James Version

Psalms 26:2 in other translations

BSBTest me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
WEBExamine me, LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
ASVExamine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.
YLTTry me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified are my reins and my heart.
DARBYProve me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:
BBEPut me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.
WebsterExamine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

What does Psalms 26:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. He asks the most careful scrutiny of his affections and thoughts (Psa 7:9), or motives.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 Examine me, O Lord - To thee I appeal; and feel no hesitation in wishing to have all the motives of my heart dissected and exposed to thy view, and to that of the world.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Psalms 26:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּחָנֵ֣נִיbe.cha.Ne.nitest meH974
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehO YahwehH3068
וְנַסֵּ֑נִיve.na.Se.niand put to [the] test meH5254
צָרְפָ֖הtza.re.Fahtest !H6884
כִלְיוֹתַ֣יkhil.yo.Taikidneys myH3629
וְלִבִּֽי\׃ve.li.Biand heart myH3820

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 26:2

  • Psalms 139:23-24

    Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

  • Psalms 7:9

    Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

  • Psalms 17:3

    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.

  • Zechariah 13:9

    And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

  • Job 13:23

    How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

  • Jeremiah 20:12

    But, O Lord of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

  • Job 31:4-6

    Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

  • Psalms 66:10

    For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
7:9; 17:3; 66:10; 139:23,24; Job 13:23; 31:4-6; Jer 20:12; Zec 13:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 26:1

    A Psalm of David. Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.

  • Psalms 26:2

    Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

  • Psalms 26:3

    For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

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Psalms 26:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Pruébame, oh Jehová, y sondéame: examina mis riñones y mi corazón.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Sonde-moi, ô Éternel! et éprouve-moi; examine mes reins et mon cœur.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Prüfe mich, Jehova, und erprobe mich; läutere meine Nieren und mein Herz!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Dum appropiant super me nocentes ut edant carnes meas, qui tribulant me inimici mei, ipsi infirmati sunt et ceciderunt.