The Message Bible MSG
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 Listen and help, O God. I'm reduced to a whine And a whimper, obsessed with feelings of doomsday.
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To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my meditation, From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life,
2 Don't let them find me - the conspirators out to get me,
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Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.
3 Using their tongues as weapons, flinging poison words, poison-tipped arrow-words.
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Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.
4 They shoot from ambush, shoot without warning, not caring who they hit.
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To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
5 They keep fit doing calisthenics of evil purpose, They keep lists of the traps they've secretly set. They say to each other, "No one can catch us,
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They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'
6 no one can detect our perfect crime." The Detective detects the mystery in the dark of the cellar heart.
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They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep.
7 The God of the Arrow shoots! They double up in pain,
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And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
8 Fall flat on their faces in full view of the grinning crowd.
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And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
9 Everyone sees it. God's work is the talk of the town.
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And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely.
10 Be glad, good people! Fly to God! Good-hearted people, make praise your habit.
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The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!
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.
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