New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!
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A Psalm, by David. O Jehovah, I have called Thee, haste to me, Give ear [to] my voice when I call to Thee.
2 Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
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My prayer is prepared -- incense before Thee, The lifting up of my hands -- the evening present.
3 Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.
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Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over 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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Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.
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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The righteous doth beat me [in] kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer [is] about their vexations.
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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Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.
7 Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.
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As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.
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 to Thee, O Jehovah, my Lord, [are] mine eyes, In Thee I have trusted, Make not bare my soul.
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 gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.
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The wicked fall in their nets together, till I pass over!
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