Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 I call to you, Lord; help me now! Listen to me when I call to you.
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<<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
2 Receive my prayer as incense, my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.
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Let my prayer be set before you like incense; The lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3 Lord, place a guard at my mouth, a sentry at the door of my lips.
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Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
4 Keep me from wanting to do wrong and from joining evil people in their wickedness. May I never take part in their feasts.
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Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.
5 Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness, but I will never accept honor from evil people, because I am always praying against their evil deeds.
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Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; Let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; Don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
6 When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs, the people will admit that my words were true.
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Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
7 Like wood that is split and chopped into bits, so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.
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"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
8 But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign Lord. I seek your protection; don't let me die!
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For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.
9 Protect me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those evildoers.
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Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, From the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10 May the wicked fall into their own traps while I go by unharmed.
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Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, While I pass by.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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