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Common English Bible CEB
1 O God, listen to my complaint. Protect my life from my enemies’ threats.
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Listen to me when I complain, God! Protect my life from the enemy's terror!
2 Hide me from the plots of this evil mob, from this gang of wrongdoers.
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Hide me from the secret plots of wicked people; hide me from the schemes of evildoers
3 They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows.
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who sharpen their tongues like swords. They aim their arrow—a cruel word—
4 They shoot from ambush at the innocent, attacking suddenly and fearlessly.
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from their hiding places so as to shoot an innocent person. They shoot without warning and without fear.
5 They encourage each other to do evil and plan how to set their traps in secret. “Who will ever notice?” they ask.
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They encourage themselves with evil words. They plan on laying traps in secret. "Who will be able to see them?" they ask.
6 As they plot their crimes, they say, “We have devised the perfect plan!” Yes, the human heart and mind are cunning.
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"Let someone try to expose our crimes! We've devised a perfect plot! It's deep within the human mind and heart."
7 But God himself will shoot them with his arrows, suddenly striking them down.
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But God will shoot them with an arrow! Without warning, they will be wounded!
8 Their own tongues will ruin them, and all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.
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The LORD will make them trip over their own tongues; everyone who sees them will just shake their heads.
9 Then everyone will be afraid; they will proclaim the mighty acts of God and realize all the amazing things he does.
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Then all people will honor God, will announce the act of God, will understand it was God's work.
10 The godly will rejoice in the LORD and find shelter in him. And those who do what is right will praise him.
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Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD; let them take refuge in him; let everyone whose heart is in the right place give praise!
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