I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Lest any should infer from Jeremiah 17:9, "who can how it?" that even the Lord does not know, and therefore cannot punish, the hidden treachery of the heart, He saith, "I the Lord search the heart," etc. (1 Chronicles 28:9; Psalms 7:9; Proverbs 17:3; Revelation 2:23).
Even to give - and that in order that I may give (Jeremiah 32:19).