My flesh and my heart may grow weak, but God always protects my heart and gives me stability.

The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.

The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.

My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

Deliver me from my distress; rescue me from my suffering!

Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.

Yes, my spirit was bitter, and my insides felt sharp pain.

They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

David cared for them with pure motives; he led them with skill.

I will give you sincere thanks, when I learn your just regulations.

Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;

His armor bearer said to him, “Do everything that is on your mind. Do as you’re inclined. I’m with you all the way!”

The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.

He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been.

O Lord God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, maintain the motives of your people and keep them devoted to you.

The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.

It was reported to the family of David, “Syria has allied with Ephraim.” They and their people were emotionally shaken, just as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.

Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!