Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Living Translation NLT
1 (140-1) I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee.
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O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!
2 (140-2) Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.
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Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
3 (140-3) Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
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Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.
4 (140-4) Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.
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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.
5 (140-5) The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:
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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.
6 (140-6) Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed:
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When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.
7 (140-7) As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.
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Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.
8 (140-8) But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.
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I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD . You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
9 (140-9) Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.
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Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.
10 (140-10) The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.
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