Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 I come to you, Lord, for protection; never let me be defeated. You are a righteous God; save me, I pray!
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<<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> In you, Yahweh, do I take refuge. Let me never be put to shame: Deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Hear me! Save me now! Be my refuge to protect me; my defense to save me.
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Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me.
3 You are my refuge and defense; guide me and lead me as you have promised.
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For you are my rock and my fortress, Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
4 Keep me safe from the trap that has been set for me; shelter me from danger.
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Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, For you are my stronghold.
5 I place myself in your care. You will save me, Lord; you are a faithful God.
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Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
6 You hate those who worship false gods, but I trust in you.
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I hate those who regard lying vanities, But I trust in Yahweh.
7 I will be glad and rejoice because of your constant love. You see my suffering; you know my trouble.
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I will be glad and rejoice in your lovingkindness, For you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
8 You have not let my enemies capture me; you have given me freedom to go where I wish.
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You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
9 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are tired from so much crying; I am completely worn out.
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Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
10 I am exhausted by sorrow, and weeping has shortened my life. I am weak from all my troubles; even my bones are wasting away.
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For my life is spent with sorrow, My years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
11 All my enemies, and especially my neighbors, treat me with contempt. Those who know me are afraid of me; when they see me in the street, they run away.
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Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
12 Everyone has forgotten me, as though I were dead; I am like something thrown away.
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I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
13 I hear many enemies whispering; terror is all around me. They are making plans against me, plotting to kill me.
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For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, While they conspire together against me, They plot to take away my life.
14 But my trust is in you, O Lord; you are my God.
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But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, You are my God.
15 I am always in your care; save me from my enemies, from those who persecute me.
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My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
16 Look on your servant with kindness; save me in your constant love.
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Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your lovingkindness.
17 I call to you, Lord; don't let me be disgraced. May the wicked be disgraced; may they go silently down to the world of the dead.
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Let me not be put to shame, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them be silent in Sheol.
18 Silence those liars - all the proud and arrogant who speak with contempt about the righteous.
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Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
19 How wonderful are the good things you keep for those who honor you! Everyone knows how good you are, how securely you protect those who trust you.
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Oh how great is your goodness, Which you have laid up for those who fear you, Which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, Before the sons of men!
20 You hide them in the safety of your presence from the plots of others; in a safe shelter you hide them from the insults of their enemies.
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In the covert of your presence will you hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
21 Praise the Lord! How wonderfully he showed his love for me when I was surrounded and attacked!
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Praise be to Yahweh, For he has shown me his marvelous lovingkindness in a strong city.
22 I was afraid and thought that he had driven me out of his presence. But he heard my cry, when I called to him for help.
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As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
23 Love the Lord, all his faithful people. The Lord protects the faithful, but punishes the proud as they deserve.
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Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, And pays back him who deals proudly in full.
24 Be strong, be courageous, all you that hope in the Lord.
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Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in Yahweh.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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