Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New International Version NIV
1 O Lord, I have cried to thee; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee.
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I call to you, LORD, come quickly to me; hear me when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
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May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.
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Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with me who work iniquity: and let me not unite with their choice ones.
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Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.
5 The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.
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Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
6 Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
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Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
7 As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave.
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They will say, “As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”
8 For mine eyes are to thee, O Lord God: I have hoped in thee; take not away my life.
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But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death.
9 Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.
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Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me.
10 Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
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