| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1LORD, I call to you, be quick to listen to me when I cry out! | 1O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you! |
| 2Let my prayer be like incense offered before you, and my uplifted hands like the evening sacrifice. | 2Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! |
| 3LORD, set a guard over my mouth; keep watch over the door to my lips. | 3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! |
| 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. | 4Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies! |
| 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. | 5Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds. |
| 6When their judges are thrown off the cliff, the people will hear my words, for they are appropriate. | 6When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant. |
| 7Just as one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered near the entrance to the place of the dead. | 7As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. |
| 8Nevertheless, my eyes are on you, Lord GOD, as I seek protection in you. Don't leave me defenseless! | 8But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless! |
| 9Protect me from the trap laid for me and from the snares of those who practice evil. | 9Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! |
| 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I come through. | 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely. |
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