The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Message Bible MSG
1 For the leader. By David, the servant of ADONAI: Crime speaks to the wicked. I perceive this in my heart; before his eyes there is no fear of God.
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The God-rebel tunes in to sedition - all ears, eager to sin. He has no regard for God, he stands insolent before him.
2 For, the way he sees it, crime makes his life easy that is, until his wrongs are discovered; then, he is hated.
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He has smooth-talked himself into believing That his evil will never be noticed.
3 His words are wrong and deceitful; he has stopped being wise and doing good.
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Words gutter from his mouth, dishwater dirty. Can't remember when he did anything decent.
4 He devises trouble as he lies in bed; so set is he on his own bad way that he doesn't hate evil.
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Every time he goes to bed, he fathers another evil plot. When he's loose on the streets, nobody's safe. He plays with fire and doesn't care who gets burned.
5 ADONAI, in the heavens is your grace; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
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God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic,
6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, your judgments are like the great deep. You save man and beast, ADONAI.
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His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.
7 How precious, God, is your grace! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings,
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How exquisite your love, O God! How eager we are to run under your wings,
8 they feast on the rich bounty of your house, and you have them drink from the stream of your delights.
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To eat our fill at the banquet you spread as you fill our tankards with Eden spring water.
9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
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You're a fountain of cascading light, and you open our eyes to light.
10 Continue your grace to those who know you and your righteousness to the upright in heart.
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Keep on loving your friends; do your work in welcoming hearts.
11 Don't let the foot of the proud tread on me or the hands of the wicked drive me away.
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Don't let the bullies kick me around, the moral midgets slap me down.
12 There they lie fallen, those evildoers, flung down and unable to rise.
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Send the upstarts sprawling flat on their faces in the mud.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.