Revised Standard Version RSV
Good News Translation GNT
1 A Psalm of David. I call upon thee, O LORD; make haste to me! Give ear to my voice, when I call to thee!
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I call to you, Lord; help me now! Listen to me when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before thee, and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice!
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Receive my prayer as incense, my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD, keep watch over the door of my lips!
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Lord, place a guard at my mouth, a sentry at the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!
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Keep me from wanting to do wrong and from joining evil people in their wickedness. May I never take part in their feasts.
5 Let a good man strike or rebuke me in kindness, but let the oil of the wicked never anoint my head; for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.
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Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness, but I will never accept honor from evil people, because I am always praying against their evil deeds.
6 When they are given over to those who shall condemn them, then they shall learn that the word of the LORD is true.
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When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs, the people will admit that my words were true.
7 As a rock which one cleaves and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
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Like wood that is split and chopped into bits, so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.
8 But my eyes are toward thee, O LORD God; in thee I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!
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But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign Lord. I seek your protection; don't let me die!
9 Keep me from the trap which they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers!
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Protect me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those evildoers.
10 Let the wicked together fall into their own nets, while I escape.
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May the wicked fall into their own traps while I go by unharmed.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.