The Message Bible MSG
World English Bible WEB
1 The God-rebel tunes in to sedition - all ears, eager to sin. He has no regard for God, he stands insolent before him.
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<<For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh.>> An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."
2 He has smooth-talked himself into believing That his evil will never be noticed.
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For he flatters himself in his own eyes, Too much to detect and hate his sin.
3 Words gutter from his mouth, dishwater dirty. Can't remember when he did anything decent.
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The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
4 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.
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He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good; He doesn't abhor evil.
5 God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic,
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Your lovingkindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
6 His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.
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Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
7 How exquisite your love, O God! How eager we are to run under your wings,
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How precious is your lovingkindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
8 To eat our fill at the banquet you spread as you fill our tankards with Eden spring water.
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They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
9 You're a fountain of cascading light, and you open our eyes to light.
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For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
10 Keep on loving your friends; do your work in welcoming hearts.
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Oh continue your lovingkindness to those who know you, Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
11 Don't let the bullies kick me around, the moral midgets slap me down.
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Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12 Send the upstarts sprawling flat on their faces in the mud.
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There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
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