New Living Translation NLT
The Message Bible MSG
1 O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!
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God, come close. Come quickly! Open your ears - it's my voice you're hearing!
2 Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
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Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers.
3 Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.
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Post a guard at my mouth, God, set a 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 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!
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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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!
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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Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music.
7 Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.
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Like a rock pulverized by a maul, let their bones be scattered at the gates of hell.
8 I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD . You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
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But God, dear Lord, I only have eyes for you. Since I've run for dear life to you, take good care of me.
9 Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.
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Protect me from their evil scheming, from all their demonic subterfuge.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.
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Let the wicked fall flat on their faces, while I walk off without a scratch. A David prayer - when he was in the cave.