Ps.141.1

GOD, come close. Come quickly! Open your ears--it's my voice you're hearing!

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O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to you.

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LORD, I cry out to You; Make haste to me! Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You.

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O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!

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Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers.

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May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.

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Let my prayer be set before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

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Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

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Post a guard at my mouth, GOD, set a watch at the door of my lips.

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Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.

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Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.

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Take control of what I say, O LORD, and keep my lips sealed.

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Don't let me so much as dream of evil or thoughtlessly fall into bad company. And these people who only do wrong--don't let them lure me with their sweet talk!

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Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies.

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Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice wicked works With men who work iniquity; And do not let me eat of their delicacies.

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Don't let me lust for evil things; don't let me participate in acts of wickedness. Don't let me share in the delicacies of those who do evil.

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May the Just One set me straight, may the Kind One correct me, Don't let sin anoint my head. I'm praying hard against their evil ways!

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Let a righteous man strike me-it is a kindness; let him rebuke me-it is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it. Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers;

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Let the righteous strike me; It shall be a kindness. And let him rebuke me; It shall be as excellent oil; Let my head not refuse it. For still my prayer is against the deeds of the wicked.

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Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they reprove me, it is soothing medicine. Don't let me refuse it. But I am in constant prayer against the wicked and their deeds.

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Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music.

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their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.

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Their judges are overthrown by the sides of the cliff, And they hear my words, for they are sweet.

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When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, they will listen to my words and find them pleasing.

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Like a rock pulverized by a maul, let their bones be scattered at the gates of hell.

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They will say, "As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave. "

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Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave, As when one plows and breaks up the earth.

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Even as a farmer breaks up the soil and brings up rocks, so the bones of the wicked will be scattered without a decent burial.

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But GOD, dear Lord, I only have eyes for you. Since I've run for dear life to you, take good care of me.

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But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge-do not give me over to death.

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But my eyes are upon You, O GOD the Lord; In You I take refuge; Do not leave my soul destitute.

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I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD. You are my refuge; don't let them kill me.

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Protect me from their evil scheming, from all their demonic subterfuge.

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Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, from the traps set by evildoers.

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Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, And from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

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Keep me out of the traps they have set for me, out of the snares of those who do evil.

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Let the wicked fall flat on their faces, while I walk off without a scratch. A David prayer--when he was in the cave. he

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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.

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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, While I escape safely.

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Let the wicked fall into their own snares, but let me escape.