Third Millennium Bible TMB
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
1 <<A Psalm of David.>> LORD, I cry unto Thee! Make haste unto me! Give ear unto my voice when I cry unto Thee.
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O LORD, I cry out to you, "Come quickly." Open your ears to me when I cry out to you.
2 Let my prayer be set before Thee as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
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Let my prayer be accepted as sweet-smelling incense in your presence. Let the lifting up of my hands in prayer be accepted as an evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
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O LORD, set a guard at my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties.
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Do not let me be persuaded to do anything evil or to become involved with wickedness, with people who are troublemakers. Do not let me taste their delicacies.
5 Let the righteous smite me: it shall be a kindness. And let him reprove me: it shall be as an excellent oil, which shall not break my head; for yet my prayer shall be with them in their calamities.
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A righteous person may strike me or correct me out of kindness. It is like lotion for my head. My head will not refuse it, because my prayer is directed against evil deeds.
6 When their judges are overthrown onto stony places, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
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When their judges are thrown off a cliff, they will listen to what I have to say. It will sound pleasant [to them].
7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
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As someone plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones will be planted at the mouth of the grave.
8 But mine eyes are unto Thee, O GOD the Lord; in Thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
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My eyes look to you, LORD Almighty. I have taken refuge in you. Do not leave me defenseless.
9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.
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Keep me away from the trap they set for me and from the traps set by troublemakers.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst I thereupon escape.
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Let wicked people fall into their own nets, while I escape unharmed.
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