New Revised Standard NRS
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 I call upon you, O Lord; come quickly to me; give ear to my voice when I call to you.
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<A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.
2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
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Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
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O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4 Do not turn my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with those who work iniquity; do not let me eat of their delicacies.
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Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.
5 Let the righteous strike me; let the faithful correct me. Never let the oil of the wicked anoint my head, for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.
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Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.
6 When they are given over to those who shall condemn them, then they shall learn that my words were pleasant.
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When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet.
7 Like a rock that one breaks apart and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
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Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.
8 But my eyes are turned toward you, O God, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; do not leave me defenseless.
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But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.
9 Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers.
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Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I alone escape.
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Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.
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