| NET Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1A psalm of David. O LORD, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me! Pay attention to me when I cry out to you! | 1LORD, I call to you, be quick to listen to me when I cry out! |
| 2May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering! | 2Let my prayer be like incense offered before you, and my uplifted hands like the evening sacrifice. |
| 3O LORD, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips! | 3LORD, set a guard over my mouth; keep watch over the door to my lips. |
| 4Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies. | 4Don't let my heart turn toward evil or involve itself in wicked activities with men who practice iniquity. Let me not feast on their delicacies. |
| 5May the godly strike me in love and correct me! May my head not refuse choice oil! Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds. | 5Let one who is righteous strike me; It is an act of gracious love. Let him rebuke me, because it is oil for my head; do not let my head refuse it. My prayers continuously will be against their wicked activities. |
| 6They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant. | 6When their judges are thrown off the cliff, the people will hear my words, for they are appropriate. |
| 7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. | 7Just as one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered near the entrance to the place of the dead. |
| 8Surely I am looking to you, O sovereign LORD. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger! | 8Nevertheless, my eyes are on you, Lord GOD, as I seek protection in you. Don't leave me defenseless! |
| 9Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set. | 9Protect me from the trap laid for me and from the snares of those who practice evil. |
| 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape. | 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I come through. |
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