New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 I come to you for protection, O LORD my God. Save me from my persecutors—rescue me!
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`The Erring One,' by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.
2 If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
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Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done wrong or am guilty of injustice,
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O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
4 if I have betrayed a friend or plundered my enemy without cause,
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If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,
5 then let my enemies capture me. Let them trample me into the ground and drag my honor in the dust. Interlude
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An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.
6 Arise, O LORD, in anger! Stand up against the fury of my enemies! Wake up, my God, and bring justice!
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Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded:
7 Gather the nations before you. Rule over them from on high.
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And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back,
8 The LORD judges the nations. Declare me righteous, O LORD, for I am innocent, O Most High!
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Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me,
9 End the evil of those who are wicked, and defend the righteous. For you look deep within the mind and heart, O righteous God.
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Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.
10 God is my shield, saving those whose hearts are true and right.
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My shield [is] on God, Saviour of the upright in heart!
11 God is an honest judge. He is angry with the wicked every day.
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God [is] a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times.
12 If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
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If [one] turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,
13 He will prepare his deadly weapons and shoot his flaming arrows.
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Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.
14 The wicked conceive evil; they are pregnant with trouble and give birth to lies.
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Lo, he travaileth [with] iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
15 They dig a deep pit to trap others, then fall into it themselves.
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A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
16 The trouble they make for others backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their own heads.
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Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
17 I will thank the LORD because he is just; I will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
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I thank Jehovah, According to His righteousness, And praise the name of Jehovah Most High!