Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.

你所喜爱的是内里诚实；你在我隐密处，必使我得智慧。

你所喜爱的是内心的诚实；求你在我隐密处使我得智慧。

你所喜爱的是内心的诚实；求你在我隐密处使我得智慧。

你所喜爱的是内心的诚实，求你使我内心有智慧。

看哪！你喜爱的是内心的诚实；在我内心的隐密处，你使我得智慧。

看哪，你喜悦内心深处的诚实，你使我在内心的隐秘处明白智慧！

你所喜愛的是內裏誠實；你在我隱密處，必使我得智慧。

你所喜愛的是內心的誠實；求你在我隱密處使我得智慧。

你所喜愛的是內心的誠實；求你在我隱密處使我得智慧。

你所喜愛的是內心的誠實，求你使我內心有智慧。

看哪！你喜愛的是內心的誠實；在我內心的隱密處，你使我得智慧。

啊，你所喜愛的是內裏真實；求你使我在心底緊密處得以明白智慧。

看哪，你喜悅內心深處的誠實，你使我在內心的隱祕處明白智慧！

中懷誠實、為爾所悅、必使我衷通達智慧兮、

中心真實、爾所悅懌、予求於爾、以智慧畀我衷曲兮。

衷藏誠實、為主所喜愛、求主使我心懷智慧、

得罪我主。神鑑實明。宜受爾責。宜伏爾懲。

Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

I know that you wanted faithfulness even when I was in my mother’s body. You taught me wisdom in that secret place.

Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there.

Surely you desire integrity in the inner self, and you teach me wisdom deep within.

Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in secret You will make wisdom known to me.

Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

Surely You desire integrity in the inner self, and You teach me wisdom deep within.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden[ part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

But the LORD said to Samuel,“ Don’t be impressed by his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. People look on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?

But a time is coming– and now is here– when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

LORD, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.

For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double- minded.

I know, my God, that you examine thoughts and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you.

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the LORD his God considered good and right and faithful.He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.

“ But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the LORD.“ I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.

But the Lord said to him,“ Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

“ Please, LORD. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Examine me, O LORD, and test me! Evaluate my inner thoughts and motives!

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,

Did Abraham not say to me,‘ She is my sister’? And she herself said,‘ He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”Then in the dream God replied to him,“ Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.

Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, to the morally upright!