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1 Lord, I call to you. Come quickly. Listen to me when I call to you.
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O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!
2 Let my prayer be like incense placed before you, and my praise like the evening sacrifice.
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Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
3 Lord, help me control my tongue; help me be careful about what I say.
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Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
4 Take away my desire to do evil or to join others in doing wrong. Don't let me eat tasty food with those who do evil.
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Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!
5 If a good person punished me, that would be kind. If he corrected me, that would be like perfumed oil on my head. I shouldn't refuse it. But I pray against those who do evil.
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Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
6 Let their leaders be thrown down the cliffs. Then people will know that I have spoken correctly:
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When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
7 "The ground is plowed and broken up. In the same way, our bones have been scattered at the grave."
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As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 God, I look to you for help. I trust in you, Lord. Don't let me die.
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But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!
9 Protect me from the traps they set for me and from the net that evil people have spread.
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Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me pass by safely. A maskil of David when he was in the cave. A prayer.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.