7 d“And when you pray, do not eheap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their fmany words. 8 Do not be like them, gfor your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
11 gthe Lord—knows the thoughts of man,
that they are but a breath.1
Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, you have dsearched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 eYou search out my path and my lying down
and are facquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of ddisobedience. 12 For the word of God is eliving and factive, gsharper than any two-edged hsword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And ino creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must jgive account.
