Common English Bible CEB
The Message Bible MSG
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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God, come close. Come quickly! Open your ears - it's my voice you're hearing!
2 Let my prayer stand before you like incense; let my uplifted hands be like the evening offering.
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Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep close watch over the door that is my lips.
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Post a guard at my mouth, God, set a watch at 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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Don't let me so much as dream of evil or thoughtlessly fall into bad company. And these people who only do wrong - don't let them lure me with their sweet talk!
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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May the Just One set me straight, may the Kind One correct me, Don't let sin anoint my head. I'm praying hard against their evil ways!
6 Their leaders will fall from jagged cliffs, but my words will be heard because they are pleasing.
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Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music.
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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Like a rock pulverized by a maul, let their bones be scattered at the gates of hell.
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 God, dear Lord, I only have eyes for you. Since I've run for dear life to you, take good care of me.
9 Protect me from the trap they've set for me; protect me from the snares of the evildoers.
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Protect me from their evil scheming, from all their demonic subterfuge.
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 flat on their faces, while I walk off without a scratch. A David prayer - when he was in the cave.
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