The searching heart

9The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and desperately sick—who can know it?

10I, Yahweh, search the heart, testing the kidneys, to give to each man according to his way, according to the fruit of his deeds.

11Like a partridge that gathers a brood it did not hatch, so is one who makes wealth unjustly: in the middle of his days it will leave him, and in his end he will be a fool.

12A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

13O Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be put to shame; those who turn away from you will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the fountain of living waters.