The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
New King James Version NKJV
1 By David: ADONAI, I am calling to you; my Rock, don't be deaf to my cry. For if you answer me with silence, I will be like those who fall in a pit.
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A Psalm of David. To You I will cry, O Lord my Rock: Do not be silent to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
2 Hear the sound of my prayers when I cry to you, when I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
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Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
3 Don't drag me off with the wicked, with those whose deeds are evil; they speak words of peace to their fellowmen, but evil is in their hearts.
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Do not take me away with the wicked And with the workers of iniquity, Who speak peace to their neighbors, But evil is in their hearts.
4 Pay them back for their deeds, as befits their evil acts; repay them for what they have done, give them what they deserve.
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Give them according to their deeds, And according to the wickedness of their endeavors; Give them according to the work of their hands; Render to them what they deserve.
5 For they don't understand the deeds of ADONAI or what he has done. He will break them down; he will not build them up.
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Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them And not build them up.
6 Blessed be ADONAI, for he heard my voice as I prayed for mercy.
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Blessed be the Lord, Because He has heard the voice of my supplications!
7 ADONAI is my strength and shield; in him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. Therefore my heart is filled with joy, and I will sing praises to him.
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The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.
8 ADONAI is strength for [his people], a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
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The Lord is their strength, And He is the saving refuge of His anointed.
9 Save your people! Bless your heritage! Shepherd them, and carry them forever!
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Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; Shepherd them also, And bear them up forever.