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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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I cry out to you, LORD: Come to me—quickly! Listen to my voice when I cry out 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 stand before you like incense; let my uplifted 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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Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep close watch over the door that is 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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Don't let my heart turn aside to evil things so that I don't do wicked things with evildoers, so I don't taste their delicacies.
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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Instead, let the righteous discipline me; let the faithful correct me! Let my head never reject that kind of fine oil, because my prayers are always against the deeds of the wicked.
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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Their leaders will fall from jagged cliffs, but my words will be heard because they are pleasing.
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 have been scattered at the mouth of the grave, just like when the ground is broken up and plowed.
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 on you, my LORD God. I take refuge in you; don't let me die!
9 Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers.
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Protect me from the trap they've set for me; protect me from the snares of the evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I alone escape.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets—all together!— but let me make it through safely.