Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
1 I call to you, Lord; help me now! Listen to me 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 Receive my prayer as incense, my uplifted hands as an 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 Lord, place a guard at my mouth, a sentry at 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 Keep me from wanting to do wrong and from joining evil people in their wickedness. May I never take part in their feasts.
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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 Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness, but I will never accept honor from evil people, because I am always praying 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 rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs, the people will admit that my words were true.
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Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
7 Like wood that is split and chopped into bits, so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.
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They will say, “As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”
8 But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign Lord. I seek your protection; don't let me die!
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But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death.
9 Protect me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those evildoers.
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Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me.
10 May the wicked fall into their own traps while I go by unharmed.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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