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New International Version NIV
1 O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!
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I call to you, LORD, come quickly to me; hear me when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
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May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
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Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!
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Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.
5 Let a righteous man strike me--it is a kindness; let him rebuke me--it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
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Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
6 When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
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Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
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