The Bible in Basic English BBE
Good News Translation GNT
1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.
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I call to you, Lord; help me now! Listen to me when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
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Receive my prayer as incense, my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.
3 O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
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Lord, place a guard at my mouth, a sentry at the door of my lips.
4 Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.
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Keep me from wanting to do wrong and from joining evil people in their wickedness. May I never take part in their feasts.
5 Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.
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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.
6 When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet.
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When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs, the people will admit that my words were true.
7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.
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Like wood that is split and chopped into bits, so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.
8 But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.
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But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign Lord. I seek your protection; don't let me die!
9 Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.
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Protect me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those evildoers.
10 Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.
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May the wicked fall into their own traps while I go by unharmed.
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.