New Living Translation NLT
The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
1 O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!
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A psalm of David: ADONAI, I have called you; come to me quickly! Listen to my plea when I call to you.
2 Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
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Let my prayer be like incense set before you, my uplifted hands like an evening sacrifice.
3 Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.
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Set a guard, ADONAI, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
4 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.
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Don't let my heart turn to anything evil or allow me to act wickedly with men who are evildoers; keep me from eating their delicacies.
5 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.
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Let the righteous strike me, let him correct me; it will be an act of love. Let my head not refuse such choice oil, for I will keep on praying about their wickedness.
6 When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.
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When their rulers are thrown down from the cliff, [the wicked] will hear that my words were fitting.
7 Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.
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As when one plows and breaks the ground into clods, our bones are strewn at the mouth of Sh'ol.
8 I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD . You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
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For my eyes, ADONAI, Adonai, are on you; in you I take refuge; don't pour out my life.
9 Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.
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Keep me from the trap they have set for me, from the snares of evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
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