King James Version KJV
New Living Translation NLT
1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
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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 set forth before thee as incense; 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 watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
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Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard 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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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 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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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 overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
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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 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
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Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.
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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I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD . You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
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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, whilst that I withal escape.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.
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