The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Message Bible MSG
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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God, come close. Come quickly! Open your ears - it's my voice you're hearing!
2 Let my prayer be like incense set before you, my uplifted hands like an evening sacrifice.
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Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers.
3 Set a guard, ADONAI, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of 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 to anything evil or allow me to act wickedly with men who are evildoers; keep me from eating 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 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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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 When their rulers are thrown down from the cliff, [the wicked] will hear that my words were fitting.
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Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music.
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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Like a rock pulverized by a maul, let their bones be scattered at the gates of hell.
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 God, dear Lord, I only have eyes for you. Since I've run for dear life to you, take good care of me.
9 Keep me from the trap they have set for me, from the snares of 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, while I pass by in safety.
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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.
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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