The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 A psalm of David: ADONAI, I have called you; come to me quickly! Listen to my plea when I call to you.
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<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.
2 Let my prayer be like incense set before you, my uplifted hands like an evening sacrifice.
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Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
3 Set a guard, ADONAI, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
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O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4 Don't let my heart turn to anything evil or allow me to act wickedly with men who are evildoers; keep me from eating their delicacies.
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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.
5 Let the righteous strike me, let him correct me; it will be an act of love. Let my head not refuse such choice oil, for I will keep on praying about their wickedness.
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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.
6 When their rulers are thrown down from the cliff, [the wicked] will hear that my words were fitting.
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When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet.
7 As when one plows and breaks the ground into clods, our bones are strewn at the mouth of Sh'ol.
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Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.
8 For my eyes, ADONAI, Adonai, are on you; in you I take refuge; don't pour out my life.
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But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.
9 Keep me from the trap they have set for me, from the snares of evildoers.
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Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
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Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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