King James Version KJV
Good News Translation GNT
1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
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I call to you, Lord; help me now! Listen to me when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
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Receive my prayer as incense, my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
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Lord, place a guard at my mouth, a sentry at the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
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Keep me from wanting to do wrong and from joining evil people in their wickedness. May I never take part in their feasts.
5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
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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.
6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
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When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs, the people will admit that my words were true.
7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
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Like wood that is split and chopped into bits, so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.
8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
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But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign Lord. I seek your protection; don't let me die!
9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
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Protect me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
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May the wicked fall into their own traps while I go by unharmed.
The King James Version is in the public domain.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.