The Message Bible MSG
Young's Literal Translation YLT
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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To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, `Fear of God is not before his eyes,
2 He has smooth-talked himself into believing That his evil will never be noticed.
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For he made [it] smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.
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 ceased to act prudently -- 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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Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'
5 God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic,
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O Jehovah, in the heavens [is] Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness [is] unto the clouds.
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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Thy righteousness [is] as mountains of God, Thy judgments [are] a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.
7 How exquisite your love, O God! How eager we are to run under your wings,
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How precious [is] Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.
8 To eat our fill at the banquet you spread as you fill our tankards with Eden spring water.
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They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.
9 You're a fountain of cascading light, and you open our eyes to light.
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For with Thee [is] a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.
10 Keep on loving your friends; do your work in welcoming hearts.
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Draw out Thy kindness to those knowing Thee, And Thy righteousness to the upright of heart.
11 Don't let the bullies kick me around, the moral midgets slap me down.
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Let not a foot of pride meet me, And a hand of the wicked let not move me.
12 Send the upstarts sprawling flat on their faces in the mud.
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There have workers of iniquity fallen, They have been overthrown, And have not been able to arise!
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