New Living Translation | New Living Translation |
1O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help! | 1O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help! |
2Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering. | 2Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering. |
3Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips. | 3Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips. |
4Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong. | 4Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong. |
5Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. Don’t let me refuse it. But I pray constantly against the wicked and their deeds. | 5Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. Don’t let me refuse it. But I pray constantly against the wicked and their deeds. |
6When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true. | 6When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true. |
7Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial. | 7Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial. |
8I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD. You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me. | 8I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD. You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me. |
9Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong. | 9Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong. |
10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape. | 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape. |
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
|
|