Hebrew Names Version HNV
The Message Bible MSG
1 <<A Psalm by David.>> LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice 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 set before you like incense; The lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
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Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers.
3 Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep 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 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.
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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, 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.
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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 judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
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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 up the eretz, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of She'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 are on you, LORD, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.
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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 snare which they have laid for me, From the traps of the workers of iniquity.
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Protect me from their evil scheming, from all their demonic subterfuge.
10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, While I pass by.
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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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