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1 I cry out to you, LORD: Come to me—quickly! Listen to my voice when I cry out to you!
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O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!
2 Let my prayer stand before you like incense; let my uplifted hands be like the evening offering.
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Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
3 Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep close watch over the door that is my lips.
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Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
4 Don't let my heart turn aside to evil things so that I don't do wicked things with evildoers, so I don't taste their delicacies.
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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!
5 Instead, let the righteous discipline me; let the faithful correct me! Let my head never reject that kind of fine oil, because my prayers are always against the deeds of the wicked.
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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.
6 Their leaders will fall from jagged cliffs, but my words will be heard because they are pleasing.
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When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
7 Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave, just like when the ground is broken up and plowed.
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As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 But my eyes are on you, my LORD God. I take refuge in you; don't let me die!
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But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!
9 Protect me from the trap they've set for me; protect me from the snares of the evildoers.
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Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets—all together!— but let me make it through safely.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.
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