Opening the chapter…
Lord, I'm calling out to you! Please hurry up and help me! Please listen to me when I cry out to you!
May my prayer be like incense before you, my uplifted hands like an evening offering.
Lord, make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't—keep a watch over my conversations.
Don't let me think about evil things or take part in doing anything wrong with wicked people. I won't join in eating fancy food at their feasts.
Let a good person punish me in love—let them correct me. It will be like an anointing—I won't refuse it. But I still pray against those who do evil.
They shall be thrown down by the power of the rock that judges them, and then they will recognize what I said was true!
Just as the earth is broken up by the plow, so shall their bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
But I'm looking to you, Lord God, for I find protection in you. Don't let me die!
Keep me safe from the traps they have set to catch me, from the snares of evil people.
Let them fall into their own traps while I pass by unharmed.
Source
Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (engfbv). Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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