Bible in 90 Days Plan

¹To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. Transgression speaks [like an oracle] to the wicked (godless) [deep] within his heart; There is no fear (dread) of God before his eyes.

²For he flatters and deceives himself in his own eyes Thinking that his sinfulness will not be discovered and hated [by God].

³The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

⁴He plans wrongdoing on his bed; He sets himself on a path that is not good; He does not reject or despise evil.

⁵Your lovingkindness and graciousness, O LORD, extend to the skies, Your faithfulness [reaches] to the clouds.

⁶Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, Your judgments are like the great deep. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

⁷How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

⁸They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; And You allow them to drink from the river of Your delights.

⁹For with You is the fountain of life [the fountain of life-giving water]; In Your light we see light.

¹⁰O continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, And Your righteousness (salvation) to the upright in heart.

¹¹Do not let the foot of the proud [person] overtake me, And do not let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

¹²There those who [are perverse and] do evil have fallen; They have been thrust down and cannot rise.

¹A Psalm of David. Do not worry because of evildoers, Nor be envious toward wrongdoers;

²For they will wither quickly like the grass, And fade like the green herb.

³Trust [rely on and have confidence] in the LORD and do good; Dwell in the land and feed [securely] on His faithfulness.

⁴Delight yourself in the LORD, And He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart.

⁵Commit your way to the LORD; Trust in Him also and He will do it.

⁶He will make your righteousness [your pursuit of right standing with God] like the light, And your judgment like [the shining of] the noonday [sun].

⁷Be still before the LORD; wait patiently for Him and entrust yourself to Him; Do not fret (whine, agonize) because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

⁸Cease from anger and abandon wrath; Do not fret; it leads only to evil.

⁹For those who do evil will be cut off, But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land.

¹⁰For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever]; Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].

¹¹But the humble will [at last] inherit the land And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity and peace.

¹²The wicked plots against the righteous And gnashes at him with his teeth.

¹³The Lord laughs at him [the wicked one—the one who oppresses the righteous], For He sees that his day [of defeat] is coming.

¹⁴The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow To cast down the afflicted and the needy, To slaughter those who are upright in conduct [those with personal integrity and godly character].

¹⁵The sword [of the ungodly] will enter their own heart, And their bow will be broken.

¹⁶Better is the little of the righteous [who seek the will of God] Than the abundance (riches) of many wicked (godless).

¹⁷For the arms of the wicked will be broken, But the LORD upholds and sustains the righteous [who seek Him].

¹⁸The LORD knows the days of the blameless, And their inheritance will continue forever.

¹⁹They will not be ashamed in the time of evil, And in the days of famine they will have plenty and be satisfied.

²⁰But the wicked (ungodly) will perish, And the enemies of the LORD will be like the glory of the pastures and like the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke], They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

²¹The wicked borrows and does not pay back, But the righteous is gracious and kind and gives.

²²For those blessed by God will [at last] inherit the land, But those cursed by Him will be cut off.

²³The steps of a [good and righteous] man are directed and established by the LORD, And He delights in his way [and blesses his path].

²⁴When he falls, he will not be hurled down, Because the LORD is the One who holds his hand and sustains him.

²⁵I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned Or his descendants pleading for bread.

²⁶All day long he is gracious and lends, And his descendants are a blessing.

²⁷Depart from evil and do good; And you will dwell [securely in the land] forever.

²⁸For the LORD delights in justice And does not abandon His saints (faithful ones); They are preserved forever, But the descendants of the wicked will [in time] be cut off.

²⁹The righteous will inherit the land And live in it forever.

³⁰The mouth of the righteous proclaims wisdom, And his tongue speaks justice and truth.

³¹The law of his God is in his heart; Not one of his steps will slip.

³²The wicked lies in wait for the righteous And seeks to kill him.

³³The LORD will not leave him in his hand Or let him be condemned when he is judged.

³⁴Wait for and expect the LORD and keep His way, And He will exalt you to inherit the land; [In the end] when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

³⁵I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power] Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,

³⁶Yet he passed away, and lo, he was no more; I sought him, but he could not be found.

³⁷Mark the blameless man [who is spiritually complete], and behold the upright [who walks in moral integrity]; There is a [good] future for the man of peace [because a life of honor blesses one's descendants].

³⁸As for transgressors, they will be completely destroyed; The future of the wicked will be cut off.

³⁹But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their refuge and stronghold in the time of trouble.

⁴⁰The LORD helps them and rescues them; He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, Because they take refuge in Him.

¹A Psalm of David; to bring to remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor discipline me in Your burning anger.

²For Your arrows have sunk into me and penetrate deeply, And Your hand has pressed down on me and greatly disciplined me.

³There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation; There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head [like the waves of a flood]; As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

⁵My wounds are loathsome and foul Because of my foolishness.

⁶I am bent over and greatly bowed down; I go about mourning all day long.

⁷For my sides are filled with burning, And there is no health in my flesh.

⁸I am numb and greatly bruised [deadly cold and completely worn out]; I groan because of the disquiet and moaning of my heart.

⁹Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.

¹⁰My heart throbs violently, my strength fails me; And as for the light of my eyes, even that has also gone from me.

¹¹My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my neighbors stand far away.

¹²Those who seek my life lay snares for me, And those who seek to injure me threaten mischievous things and destruction; They devise treachery all the day long.

¹³But I, like a deaf man, do not hear; I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

¹⁴Yes, I am like a man who does not hear, In whose mouth are no arguments.

¹⁵For in You, O LORD, I hope; You will answer, O Lord my God.

¹⁶For I pray, "May they not rejoice over me, Who, when my foot slips, would boast against me."

¹⁷For I am ready to fall; My sorrow is continually before me.

¹⁸For I do confess my guilt and iniquity; I am filled with anxiety because of my sin.

¹⁹But my [numerous] enemies are vigorous and strong, And those who hate me without cause are many.

²⁰They repay evil for good, they attack and try to kill me, Because I follow what is good.

²¹Do not abandon me, O LORD; O my God, do not be far from me.

²²Make haste to help me, O Lord, my Salvation.

¹To the Chief Musician; for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, "I will guard my ways That I may not sin with my tongue; I will muzzle my mouth While the wicked are in my presence."

²I was mute and silent [before my enemies], I refrained even from good, And my distress grew worse.

³My heart was hot within me. While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:

⁴"LORD, let me know my [life's] end And [to appreciate] the extent of my days; Let me know how frail I am [how transient is my stay here].

⁵"Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths, And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight. Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.

⁶"Surely every man walks around like a shadow [in a charade]; Surely they make an uproar for nothing; Each one builds up riches, not knowing who will receive them.

⁷"And now, Lord, for what do I expectantly wait? My hope [my confident expectation] is in You.

⁸"Save me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the scorn and reproach of the [self-righteous, arrogant] fool.

⁹"I am mute, I do not open my mouth, Because it is You who has done it.

¹⁰"Remove Your plague from me; I am wasting away because of the conflict and opposition of Your hand.

¹¹"With rebukes You discipline man for sin; You consume like a moth what is precious to him; Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.

¹²"Hear my prayer, O LORD, and listen to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am Your temporary guest, A sojourner like all my fathers.

¹³"O look away from me, that I may smile and again know joy Before I depart and am no more."

¹To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently and expectantly for the LORD; And He inclined to me and heard my cry.

²He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.

³He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear [with great reverence] And will trust confidently in the LORD.

⁴Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who makes the LORD his trust, And does not regard the proud nor those who lapse into lies.

⁵Many, O LORD my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of your wonders, They would be too many to count.

⁶Sacrifice and meal offering You do not desire, nor do You delight in them; You have opened my ears and given me the capacity to hear [and obey Your word]; Burnt offerings and sin offerings You do not require.

⁷Then I said, "Behold, I come [to the throne]; In the scroll of the book it is written of me.

⁸"I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart."

⁹I have proclaimed good news of righteousness [and the joy that comes from obedience to You] in the great assembly; Behold, I will not restrain my lips [from proclaiming Your righteousness], As You know, O LORD.

¹⁰I have not concealed Your righteousness within my heart; I have proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.

¹¹Do not withhold Your compassion and tender mercy from me, O LORD; Your lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me.

¹²For innumerable evils have encompassed me; My sins have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more numerous than the hairs of my head, And my heart has failed me.

¹³Be pleased, O LORD, to save me; O LORD, make haste to help me.

¹⁴Let those be ashamed and humiliated together Who seek my life to destroy it; Let those be turned back [in defeat] and dishonored Who delight in my hurt.

¹⁵Let those be appalled and desolate because of their shame Who say to me, "Aha, aha [rejoicing in my misfortune]!"

¹⁶Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; Let those who love Your salvation say continually, "The LORD be magnified!"

¹⁷Even though I am afflicted and needy, Still the Lord takes thought and is mindful of me. You are my help and my rescuer. O my God, do not delay.

¹To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed [by God's grace and compassion] is he who considers the helpless; The LORD will save him in the day of trouble.

²The LORD will protect him and keep him alive; And he will be called blessed in the land; You do not hand him over to the desire of his enemies.

³The LORD will sustain and strengthen him on his sickbed; In his illness, You will restore him to health.

⁴As for me, I said, "O LORD, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You."

⁵My enemies speak evil of me, saying, "When will he die and his name perish?"

⁶And when one comes to see me, he speaks empty words, While his heart gathers malicious gossip [against me]; When he goes away, he tells it [everywhere].

⁷All who hate me whisper together about me; Against me they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me], saying,

⁸"A wicked thing is poured out upon him and holds him; And when he lies down, he will not rise up again."

⁹Even my own close friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me [betraying me].

¹⁰But You, O LORD, be gracious to me and restore me [to health], So that I may repay them.

¹¹By this I know that You favor and delight in me, Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.

¹²As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, And You set me in Your presence forever.

¹³Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting [from this age to the next, and forever]. Amen and Amen (so be it).

¹To the Chief Musician. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants [longingly] for the water brooks, So my soul pants [longingly] for You, O God.

²My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of God?

³My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

⁴These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul; How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song], With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

⁵Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become restless and disturbed within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.

⁶O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear]; Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

⁷Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

⁸Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song will be with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

⁹I will say to God my rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

¹⁰As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me, While they say continually to me, "Where is your God?"

¹¹Why are you in despair, O my soul? Why have you become restless and disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

¹Judge and vindicate me, O God; plead my case against an ungodly nation. O rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man!

²For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

³O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places.

⁴Then I will go to the altar of God, To God, my exceeding joy; With the lyre I will praise You, O God, my God!

⁵Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you restless and disturbed within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him, The help of my [sad] countenance and my God.

¹To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us The work You did in their days, In the days of old.

²You drove out the [pagan] nations with Your own hand; Then you planted and established them (Israel); [It was by Your power that] You uprooted the [pagan] peoples, Then You spread them abroad.

³For our fathers did not possess the land [of Canaan] by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them, But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence, Because You favored and delighted in them.

⁴You are my King, O God; Command victories and deliverance for Jacob (Israel).

⁵Through You we will gore our enemies [like a bull]; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

⁶For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.

⁷But You have saved us from our enemies, And You have put them to shame and humiliated those who hate us.

⁸In God we have boasted all the day long, And we will praise and give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

⁹But now You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And You do not go out with our armies [to lead us to victory].

¹⁰You make us turn back from the enemy, And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

¹¹You have made us like sheep to be eaten [as mutton] And have scattered us [in exile] among the nations.

¹²You sell Your people cheaply, And have not increased Your wealth by their sale.

¹³You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

¹⁴You make us a byword among the nations, A laughingstock among the people.

¹⁵My dishonor is before me all day long, And humiliation has covered my face,

¹⁶Because of the voice of the taunter and reviler, Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You, Nor have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers].

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back, Nor have our steps wandered from Your path,

¹⁹Yet You have [distressingly] crushed us in the place of jackals And covered us with [the deep darkness of] the shadow of death.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God Or stretched out our hands to a strange god,

²¹Would not God discover this? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

²²But for Your sake we are killed all the day long; We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

²³Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Awaken, do not reject us forever.

²⁴Why do You hide Your face And forget our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For our life has melted away into the dust; Our body clings to the ground.

²⁶Rise up! Come be our help, And ransom us for the sake of Your steadfast love.

¹To the Chief Musician; set to the [tune of] "Lilies." A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem. A Song of Love. My heart overflows with a good theme; I address my psalm to the King. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

²You are fairer than the sons of men; Graciousness is poured upon Your lips; Therefore God has blessed You forever.

³Strap Your sword on Your thigh, O mighty One, In Your splendor and Your majesty!

⁴And in Your majesty ride on triumphantly For the cause of truth and humility and righteousness; Let Your right hand guide You to awesome things.

⁵Your arrows are sharp; The peoples (nations) fall under You; Your arrows pierce the hearts of the King's enemies.

⁶Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

⁷You have loved righteousness (virtue, morality, justice) and hated wickedness; Therefore God, your God, has anointed You Above Your companions with the oil of jubilation.

⁸All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes and cassia; From ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.

⁹Kings' daughters are among Your noble ladies; At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

¹⁰Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear [to my instruction]: Forget your people and your father's house;

¹¹Then the King will desire your beauty; Because He is your Lord, bow down and honor Him.

¹²The daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; The rich among the people will seek your favor.

¹³Glorious is the King's daughter within [the palace]; Her robe is interwoven with gold.

¹⁴She will be brought to the King in embroidered garments; The virgins, her companions who follow her, Will be brought to You.

¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing will they be led; They will enter into the King's palace.

¹⁶In place of your fathers will be your sons; You shall make princes in all the land.

¹⁷I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the peoples will praise and give You thanks forever and ever.

¹To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah, set to soprano voices. A Song. God is our refuge and strength [mighty and impenetrable], A very present and well-proved help in trouble.

²Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change And though the mountains be shaken and slip into the heart of the seas,

³Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains tremble at its roaring. Selah.

⁴There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

⁵God is in the midst of her [His city], she will not be moved; God will help her when the morning dawns.

⁶The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered and were moved; He raised His voice, the earth melted.

⁷The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our stronghold [our refuge, our high tower]. Selah.

⁸Come, behold the works of the LORD, Who has wrought desolations and wonders in the earth.

⁹He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow into pieces and snaps the spear in two; He burns the chariots with fire.

¹⁰"Be still and know (recognize, understand) that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations! I will be exalted in the earth."

¹¹The LORD of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our stronghold [our refuge, our high tower]. Selah.

¹To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. O clap your hands, all you people; Shout to God with the voice of triumph and songs of joy.

²For the LORD Most High is to be feared [and worshiped with awe-inspired reverence and obedience]; He is a great King over all the earth.

³He subdues peoples under us And nations under our feet.

⁴He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory and excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

⁵God has ascended amid shouting, The LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

⁶Sing praises to God, sing praises; Sing praises to our King, sing praises.

⁷For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises in a skillful psalm and with understanding.

⁸God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne.

⁹The princes of the people have gathered together as the people of the God of Abraham, For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.

¹A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, His holy mountain.

²Fair and beautiful in elevation, the joy of all the earth, Is Mount Zion [the City of David] in the far north, The city of the great King.

³God, in her palaces, Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

⁴For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They [came and] passed by together.

⁵They saw it, then they were amazed; They were stricken with terror, they fled in alarm.

⁶Panic seized them there, And pain, as that of a woman in childbirth.

⁷With the east wind You shattered the ships of Tarshish.

⁸As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah.

⁹We have thought of Your lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of Your temple.

¹⁰As is Your name, O God, So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness (rightness, justice).

¹¹Let Mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice Because of Your [righteous] judgments.

¹²Walk about Zion, go all around her; Count her towers,

¹³Consider her ramparts, Go through her palaces, That you may tell the next generation [about her glory].

¹⁴For this is God, Our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even until death.