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New Living Translation NLT
1 O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!
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O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!
2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
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Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
3 Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
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Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.
4 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!
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Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.
5 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.
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Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. Don’t let me refuse it. But I pray constantly against the wicked and their deeds.
6 When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
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When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.
7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.
8 But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!
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I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD . You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
9 Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!
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Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.
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