Psalm 7:9 Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure-- you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure-- you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.

English Standard Version
Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

New American Standard Bible
O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous. The One who examines the thoughts and emotions is a righteous God.

International Standard Version
Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous. For you are the righteous God who discerns the inner thoughts.

American Standard Version
O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought: and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God.

Darby Bible Translation
Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous man; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.

Young's Literal Translation
Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.

Cross References

Revelation 2:23
And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts: and I will give to every one of you according to your works.

Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Psalm 11:4
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

Psalm 11:5
The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates.

Psalm 11:7
For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright.

Psalm 26:2
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Psalm 34:21
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Psalm 37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.

Psalm 40:2
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.

Psalm 66:10
For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

7:1-9 David flees to God for succour. But Christ alone could call on Heaven to attest his uprightness in all things. All His works were wrought in righteousness; and the prince of this world found nothing whereof justly to accuse him. Yet for our sakes, submitting to be charged as guilty, he suffered all evils, but, being innocent, he triumphed over them all. The plea is, For the righteous God trieth the hearts and the reins. He knows the secret wickedness of the wicked, and how to bring it to an end; he is witness to the secret sincerity of the just, and has ways of establishing it. When a man has made peace with God about all his sins, upon the terms of grace and mercy, through the sacrifice of the Mediator, he may, in comparison with his enemies, appeal to God's justice to decide.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9. the hearts and reins—the affections and motives of men, or the seat of them (compare Ps 16:7; 26:2); as we use heart and bosom or breast.