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New Living Translation NLT
1 I call to you, LORD, come quickly to me; hear me when I call to you.
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O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!
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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Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
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Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard 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 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 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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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 Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
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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 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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Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.
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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I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD . You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
9 Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me.
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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, while I pass by in safety.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.
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