New Revised Standard NRS
The Message Bible MSG
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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God, come close. Come quickly! Open your ears - it's my voice you're hearing!
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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Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
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Post a guard at my mouth, God, set a watch at 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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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 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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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 they are given over to those who shall condemn them, then they shall learn that my words were pleasant.
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Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music.
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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Like a rock pulverized by a maul, let their bones be scattered at the gates of hell.
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 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 trap that they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers.
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Protect me from their evil scheming, from all their demonic subterfuge.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I alone 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.
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