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1 I call to you, LORD, come quickly to me; hear me when I call to you.
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I cry out to you, LORD: Come to me—quickly! Listen to my voice when I cry out to you!
2 May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
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Let my prayer stand before you like incense; let my uplifted hands be like the evening offering.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
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Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep close watch over the door that is my lips.
4 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.
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Don't let my heart turn aside to evil things so that I don't do wicked things with evildoers, so I don't taste their delicacies.
5 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.
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Instead, let the righteous discipline me; let the faithful correct me! Let my head never reject that kind of fine oil, because my prayers are always against the deeds of the wicked.
6 Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
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Their leaders will fall from jagged cliffs, but my words will be heard because they are pleasing.
7 They will say, “As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”
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Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave, just like when the ground is broken up and plowed.
8 But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death.
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But my eyes are on you, my LORD God. I take refuge in you; don't let me die!
9 Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me.
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Protect me from the trap they've set for me; protect me from the snares of the evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets—all together!— but let me make it through safely.