heart

Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand against any fear.

He that pricketh the eye will make tears to fall: and he that pricketh the heart maketh it to shew her knowledge.

Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:

A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, the walls cover me, and no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will not remember my sins:

There be nine things which I have judged in mine heart to be happy, and the tenth I will utter with my tongue: A man that hath joy of his children; and he that liveth to see the fall of his enemy:

[Give me] any plague, but the plague of the heart: and any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman:

A wicked woman abateth the courage, maketh an heavy countenance and a wounded heart: a woman that will not comfort her husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees.

Whether a man be rich or poor, if he have a good heart toward the Lord, he shall at all times rejoice with a cheerful countenance.

There be three things that mine heart feareth; and for the fourth I was sore afraid: the slander of a city, the gathering together of an unruly multitude, and a false accusation: all these are worse than death.

But a grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous over another woman, and a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.

As the golden pillars are upon the sockets of silver; so are the fair feet with a constant heart.

There be two things that grieve my heart; and the third maketh me angry: a man of war that suffereth poverty; and men of understanding that are not set by; and one that returneth from righteousness to sin; the Lord prepareth such an one for the sword.

The fruit declareth if the tree have been dressed; so is the utterance of a conceit in the heart of man.

Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat him on the sides while he is a child, lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient unto thee, and so bring sorrow to thine heart.

There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart.

The gladness of the heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.

Love thine own soul, and comfort thy heart, remove sorrow far from thee: for sorrow hath killed many, and there is no profit therein.

A cheerful and good heart will have a care of his meat and diet.

Wine measurably drunk and in season bringeth gladness of the heart, and cheerfulness of the mind:

The heart of the foolish is like a cartwheel; and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.

Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: and the heart fancieth, as a woman’s heart in travail.

Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: and the heart fancieth, as a woman’s heart in travail.

If they be not sent from the most High in thy visitation, set not thy heart upon them.

As the palate tasteth divers kinds of venison: so doth an heart of understanding false speeches.

A froward heart causeth heaviness: but a man of experience will recompense him.

And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.

The countenance is a sign of changing of the heart.

Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness.

For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.

In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poor is the curse of the heart.

Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and member the last end.

He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and will pray before the most High, and will open his mouth in prayer, and make supplication for his sins.

And therefore praise ye the Lord with the whole heart and mouth, and bless the name of the Lord.

Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death, [trouble] their thoughts, and [cause] fear of heart;

A little or nothing is his rest, and afterward he is in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he were escaped out of a battle.

Wine and musick rejoice the heart: but the love of wisdom is above them both.

Riches and strength lift up the heart: but the fear of the Lord is above them both: there is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to seek help.

He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, and considereth their crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that may be known, and he beholdeth the signs of the world.

The eye marvelleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the raining of it.

The third in glory is Phinees the son of Eleazar, because he had zeal in the fear of the Lord, and stood up with good courage of heart: when the people were turned back, and made reconciliation for Israel.

God give you wisdom in your heart to judge his people in righteousness, that their good things be not abolished, and that their glory may endure for ever.

And concerning the judges, every one by name, whose heart went not a whoring, nor departed from the Lord, let their memory be blessed.

In all his works he praised the Holy One most high with words of glory; with his whole heart he sung songs, and loved him that made him.

Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the wrath of the Lord’s judgment, before it brake forth into fury, and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

He directed his heart unto the Lord, and in the time of the ungodly he established the worship of God.

He grant us joyfulness of heart, and that peace may be in our days in Israel for ever:

There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth, and the third is no nation:

Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem hath written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge, who out of his heart poured forth wisdom.

Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things; and he that layeth them up in his heart shall become wise.

Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart delighted in her: my foot went the right way, from my youth up sought I after her.

I directed my soul unto her, and I found her in pureness: I have had my heart joined with her from the beginning, therefore shall I not be foresaken.

My heart was troubled in seeking her: therefore have I gotten a good possession.

But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God.

Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart.

And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear:

Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee.

Nevertheless in a contrite heart and an humble spirit let us be accepted.

And now we follow thee with all our heart, we fear thee, and seek thy face.

O ye holy and humble men of heart, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

And she weeping looked up toward heaven: for her heart trusted in the Lord.

So he put him aside, and commanded to bring the other, and said unto him, O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thine heart.

And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet before him; whereupon he was exalted and his heart was lifted up.

Wherefore he called for all his friends, and said unto them, The sleep is gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for very care.

The people of the Jews shall help them, as the time shall be appointed, with all their heart:

In the same manner also, if war come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them with all their heart, according as the time shall be appointed them:

Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.

And give you all an heart to serve him, and to do his will, with a good courage and a willing mind;

Then whoso had looked the high priest in the face, it would have wounded his heart: for his countenance and the changing of his colour declared the inward agony of his mind.

For the man was so compassed with fear and horror of the body, that it was manifest to them that looked upon him, what sorrow he had now in his heart.

Then they praised the merciful God all together, and took heart, insomuch that they were ready not only to fight with men, but with most cruel beasts, and to pierce through walls of iron.

And he would not willingly have Judas out of his sight: for he loved the man from his heart.

And the works or Josias were upright before his Lord with an heart full of godliness.

And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel.

And it maketh every heart rich, so that a man remembereth neither king nor governor; and it maketh to speak all things by talents:

Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord God of my fathers, who hath put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:

In the thirtieth year after the ruin of the city I was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:

And yet tookest thou not away from them a wicked heart, that thy law might bring forth fruit in them.

For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and so be all they that are born of him.

Thus infirmity was made permanent; and the law (also) in the heart of the people with the malignity of the root; so that the good departed away, and the evil abode still.

And in all things did even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also had a wicked heart:

For when I came thither, and had seen impieties without number, then my soul saw many evildoers in this thirtieth year, so that my heart failed me.

And said, Thy heart hath gone to far in this world, and thinkest thou to comprehend the way of the most High?

Whereof if thou canst declare me one, I will shew thee also the way that thou desirest to see, and I shall shew thee from whence the wicked heart cometh.

For the grain of evil seed hath been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much ungodliness hath it brought up unto this time? and how much shall it yet bring forth until the time of threshing come?

And after seven days so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me again,

And the men that are received shall see it, who have not tasted death from their birth: and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed, and turned into another meaning.

And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again, and I began to speak before the most High.

O Lord, if thou suffer not thy servant, that we may pray before thee, and thou give us seed unto our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it; how shall each man live that is corrupt, who beareth the place of a man?

And said in their heart, that there is no God; yea, and that knowing they must die.

After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed within me, like as before:

For we that have received the law perish by sin, and our heart also which received it

And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.

And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.

What aileth thee? and why art thou so disquieted? and why is thine understanding troubled, and the thoughts of thine heart?

For now the most High seeth that thou art grieved unfeignedly, and sufferest from thy whole heart for her, so hath he shewed thee the brightness of her glory, and the comeliness of her beauty:

And therefore fear not, let not thine heart be affrighted, but go thy way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as thine eyes be able to see:

That thou lay up in thy heart the signs that I have shewed, and the dreams that thou hast seen, and the interpretations which thou hast heard:

And come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be performed which thou shalt begin to write.

And I took it, and drank: and when I had drunk of it, my heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit strengthened my memory:

He made man, and put his heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding.