The Message Bible MSG
World English Bible WEB
1 God, come close. Come quickly! Open your ears - it's my voice you're hearing!
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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 Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers.
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Let my prayer be set before you like incense; The lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3 Post a guard at my mouth, God, set a watch at the door of my lips.
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Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
4 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!
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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 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!
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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 Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music.
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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 a rock pulverized by a maul, let their bones be scattered at the gates of hell.
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"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
8 But God, dear Lord, I only have eyes for you. Since I've run for dear life to you, take good care of me.
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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 their evil scheming, from all their demonic subterfuge.
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Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, From the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10 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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Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, While I pass by.
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