Bible in 90 Days Plan

¹For the choir director. Of David, the LORD’s servant. [1] An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked person: Dread of God has no effect on him.

²For with his flattering opinion of himself, he does not discover and hate his iniquity.

³The words from his mouth are malicious and deceptive; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

⁴Even on his bed he makes malicious plans. He sets himself on a path that is not good, and he does not reject evil.

⁵LORD, your faithful love reaches to heaven, your faithfulness to the clouds.

⁶Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your judgments like the deepest sea. LORD, you preserve people and animals.

⁷How priceless your faithful love is, God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

⁸They are filled from the abundance of your house. You let them drink from your refreshing stream.

⁹For the wellspring of life is with you. By means of your light we see light.

¹⁰Spread your faithful love over those who know you, and your righteousness over the upright in heart.

¹¹Do not let the foot of the arrogant come near me or the hand of the wicked drive me away.

¹²There! The evildoers have fallen. They have been thrown down and cannot rise.

¹Of David. [1] Do not be agitated by evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong.

²For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender green plants.

³Trust in the LORD and do what is good; dwell in the land and live securely.

⁴Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires.

⁵Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act,

⁶making your righteousness shine like the dawn, your justice like the noonday.

⁷Be silent before the LORD and wait expectantly for him; do not be agitated by one who prospers in his way, by the person who carries out evil plans.

⁸Refrain from anger and give up your rage; do not be agitated — it can only bring harm.

⁹For evildoers will be destroyed, but those who put their hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

¹⁰A little while, and the wicked person will be no more; though you look for him, he will not be there.

¹¹But the humble will inherit the land and will enjoy abundant prosperity.

¹²The wicked person schemes against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him.

¹³The Lord laughs at him because he sees that his day is coming.

¹⁴The wicked have drawn the sword and strung the bow to bring down the poor and needy and to slaughter those whose way is upright.

¹⁵Their swords will enter their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

¹⁶The little that the righteous person has is better than the abundance of many wicked people.

¹⁷For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD supports the righteous.

¹⁸The LORD watches over the blameless all their days, and their inheritance will last forever.

¹⁹They will not be disgraced in times of adversity; they will be satisfied in days of hunger.

²⁰But the wicked will perish; the LORD’s enemies, like the glory of the pastures, will fade away — they will fade away like smoke.

²¹The wicked person borrows and does not repay, but the righteous one is gracious and giving.

²²Those who are blessed by the LORD will inherit the land, but those cursed by him will be destroyed.

²³A person’s steps are established by the LORD, and he takes pleasure in his way.

²⁴Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, because the LORD supports him with his hand.

²⁵I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned or his children begging for bread.

²⁶He is always generous, always lending, and his children are a blessing.

²⁷Turn away from evil, do what is good, and settle permanently.

²⁸For the LORD loves justice and will not abandon his faithful ones. They are kept safe forever, but the children of the wicked will be destroyed.

²⁹The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it permanently.

³⁰The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom; his tongue speaks what is just.

³¹The instruction of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.

³²The wicked one lies in wait for the righteous and intends to kill him;

³³the LORD will not leave him in the power of the wicked one or allow him to be condemned when he is judged.

³⁴Wait for the LORD and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. You will watch when the wicked are destroyed.

³⁵I have seen a wicked, violent person well-rooted, like a flourishing native tree.

³⁶Then I passed by and noticed he was gone; I searched for him, but he could not be found.

³⁷Watch the blameless and observe the upright, for the person of peace will have a future.

³⁸But transgressors will all be eliminated; the future of the wicked will be destroyed.

³⁹The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD, their refuge in a time of distress.

⁴⁰The LORD helps and delivers them; he will deliver them from the wicked and will save them because they take refuge in him.

¹A psalm of David for remembrance. [1] LORD, do not punish me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

²For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.

³There is no soundness in my body because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

⁴For my iniquities have flooded over my head; they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.

⁵My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.

⁶I am bent over and brought very low; all day long I go around in mourning.

⁷For my insides are full of burning pain, and there is no soundness in my body.

⁸I am faint and severely crushed; I groan because of the anguish of my heart.

⁹Lord, my every desire is in front of you; my sighing is not hidden from you.

¹⁰My heart races, my strength leaves me, and even the light of my eyes has faded.

¹¹My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction, and my relatives stand at a distance.

¹²Those who intend to kill me set traps, and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me; they plot treachery all day long.

¹³I am like a deaf person; I do not hear. I am like a speechless person who does not open his mouth.

¹⁴I am like a man who does not hear and has no arguments in his mouth.

¹⁵For I put my hope in you, LORD; you will answer me, my Lord, my God.

¹⁶For I said, “Don’t let them rejoice over me — those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble.”

¹⁷For I am about to fall, and my pain is constantly with me.

¹⁸So I confess my iniquity; I am anxious because of my sin.

¹⁹But my enemies are vigorous and powerful; many hate me for no reason.

²⁰Those who repay evil for good attack me for pursuing good.

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

²²Hurry to help me, my Lord, my salvation.

¹For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A psalm of David. [1] I said, “I will guard my ways so that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are in my presence.”

²I was speechless and quiet; I kept silent, even from speaking good, and my pain intensified.

³My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, a fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

⁴“LORD, make me aware of my end and the number of my days so that I will know how short-lived I am.

⁵In fact, you have made my days just inches long, and my life span is as nothing to you. Yes, every human being stands as only a vapor. Selah

⁶Yes, a person goes about like a mere shadow. Indeed, they rush around in vain, gathering possessions without knowing who will get them.

⁷“Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

⁸Rescue me from all my transgressions; do not make me the taunt of fools.

⁹I am speechless; I do not open my mouth because of what you have done.

¹⁰Remove your torment from me. Because of the force of your hand I am finished.

¹¹You discipline a person with punishment for iniquity, consuming like a moth what is precious to him; yes, every human being is only a vapor. Selah

¹²“Hear my prayer, LORD, and listen to my cry for help; do not be silent at my tears. For I am here with you as an alien, a temporary resident like all my ancestors.

¹³Turn your angry gaze from me so that I may be cheered up before I die and am gone.”

¹For the choir director. A psalm of David. [1] I waited patiently for the LORD, and he turned to me and heard my cry for help.

²He brought me up from a desolate pit, out of the muddy clay, and set my feet on a rock, making my steps secure.

³He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and they will trust in the LORD.

⁴How happy is anyone who has put his trust in the LORD and has not turned to the proud or to those who run after lies!

⁵LORD my God, you have done many things — your wondrous works and your plans for us; none can compare with you. If I were to report and speak of them, they are more than can be told.

⁶You do not delight in sacrifice and offering; you open my ears to listen. You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

⁷Then I said, “See, I have come; in the scroll it is written about me.

⁸I delight to do your will, my God, and your instruction is deep within me.”

⁹I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; see, I do not keep my mouth closed  — as you know, LORD.

¹⁰I did not hide your righteousness in my heart; I spoke about your faithfulness and salvation; I did not conceal your constant love and truth from the great assembly.

¹¹LORD, you do not withhold your compassion from me. Your constant love and truth will always guard me.

¹²For troubles without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me; I am unable to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my courage leaves me.

¹³LORD, be pleased to rescue me; hurry to help me, LORD.

¹⁴Let those who intend to take my life be disgraced and confounded. Let those who wish me harm be turned back and humiliated.

¹⁵Let those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled because of their shame.

¹⁶Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; let those who love your salvation continually say, “The LORD is great!”

¹⁷I am oppressed and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and my deliverer; my God, do not delay.

¹For the choir director. A psalm of David. [1] Happy is one who is considerate of the poor; the LORD will save him in a day of adversity.

²The LORD will keep him and preserve him; he will be blessed in the land. You will not give him over to the desire of his enemies.

³The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed; you will heal him on the bed where he lies.

⁴I said, “LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

⁵My enemies speak maliciously about me: “When will he die and be forgotten?”

⁶When one of them comes to visit, he speaks deceitfully; he stores up evil in his heart; he goes out and talks.

⁷All who hate me whisper together about me; they plan to harm me.

⁸“Something awful has overwhelmed him, and he won’t rise again from where he lies!”

⁹Even my friend in whom I trusted, one who ate my bread, has raised his heel against me.

¹⁰But you, LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up; then I will repay them.

¹¹By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.

¹²You supported me because of my integrity and set me in your presence forever.

¹³Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and amen.

¹For the choir director. A of the sons of Korah. [1] As a deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God.

²I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God?

³My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me, “Where is your God?”

⁴I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.

⁵Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God.

⁶I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

⁷Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.

⁸The LORD will send his faithful love by day; his song will be with me in the night — a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹I will say to God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

¹⁰My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”

¹¹Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God.

¹Vindicate me, God, and champion my cause against an unfaithful nation; rescue me from the deceitful and unjust person.

²For you are the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

³Send your light and your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy mountain, to your dwelling place.

⁴Then I will come to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise you with the lyre, God, my God.

⁵Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God.

¹For the choir director. A of the sons of Korah. [1] God, we have heard with our ears — our ancestors have told us — the work you accomplished in their days, in days long ago:

²In order to plant them, you displaced the nations by your hand; in order to settle them, you brought disaster on the peoples.

³For they did not take the land by their sword — their arm did not bring them victory — but by your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable toward them.

⁴You are my King, my God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

⁵Through you we drive back our foes; through your name we trample our enemies.

⁶For I do not trust in my bow, and my sword does not bring me victory.

⁷But you give us victory over our foes and let those who hate us be disgraced.

⁸We boast in God all day long; we will praise your name forever. Selah

⁹But you have rejected and humiliated us; you do not march out with our armies.

¹⁰You make us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have taken plunder for themselves.

¹¹You hand us over to be eaten like sheep and scatter us among the nations.

¹²You sell your people for nothing; you make no profit from selling them.

¹³You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

¹⁴You make us a joke among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

¹⁵My disgrace is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face,

¹⁶because of the taunts of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy and avenger.

¹⁷All this has happened to us, but we have not forgotten you or betrayed your covenant.

¹⁸Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from your path.

¹⁹But you have crushed us in a haunt of jackals and have covered us with deepest darkness.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God and spread out our hands to a foreign god,

²¹wouldn’t God have found this out, since he knows the secrets of the heart?

²²Because of you we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

²³Wake up, LORD! Why are you sleeping? Get up! Don’t reject us forever!

²⁴Why do you hide and forget our affliction and oppression?

²⁵For we have sunk down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

²⁶Rise up! Help us! Redeem us because of your faithful love.

¹For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” A of the sons of Korah. A love song. [1] My heart is moved by a noble theme as I recite my verses to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

²You are the most handsome of men; grace flows from your lips. Therefore God has blessed you forever.

³Mighty warrior, strap your sword at your side. In your majesty and splendor  —

⁴in your splendor ride triumphantly in the cause of truth, humility, and justice. May your right hand show your awe-inspiring acts.

⁵Your sharpened arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.

⁶Your throne, God, is forever and ever; the scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of justice.

⁷You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy more than your companions.

⁸Myrrh, aloes, and cassia perfume all your garments; from ivory palaces harps bring you joy.

⁹Kings’ daughters are among your honored women; the queen, adorned with gold from Ophir, stands at your right hand.

¹⁰Listen, daughter, pay attention and consider: forget your people and your father’s house,

¹¹and the king will desire your beauty. Bow down to him, for he is your lord.

¹²The daughter of Tyre, the wealthy people, will seek your favor with gifts.

¹³In her chamber, the royal daughter is all glorious, her clothing embroidered with gold.

¹⁴In colorful garments she is led to the king; after her, the virgins, her companions, are brought to you.

¹⁵They are led in with gladness and rejoicing; they enter the king’s palace.

¹⁶Your sons will succeed your ancestors; you will make them princes throughout the land.

¹⁷I will cause your name to be remembered for all generations; therefore the peoples will praise you forever and ever.

¹For the choir director. A song of the sons of Korah. According to . [1] God is our refuge and strength, a helper who is always found in times of trouble.

²Therefore we will not be afraid, though the earth trembles and the mountains topple into the depths of the seas,

³though its water roars and foams and the mountains quake with its turmoil. Selah

⁴There is a river — its streams delight the city of God, the holy dwelling place of the Most High.

⁵God is within her; she will not be toppled. God will help her when the morning dawns.

⁶Nations rage, kingdoms topple; the earth melts when he lifts his voice.

⁷The LORD of Armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah

⁸Come, see the works of the LORD, who brings devastation on the earth.

⁹He makes wars cease throughout the earth. He shatters bows and cuts spears to pieces; he sets wagons ablaze.

¹⁰“Stop your fighting, and know that I am God, exalted among the nations, exalted on the earth.”

¹¹The LORD of Armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah

¹For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah. [1] Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout to God with a jubilant cry.

²For the LORD, the Most High, is awe-inspiring, a great King over the whole earth.

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

⁴He chooses for us our inheritance — the pride of Jacob, whom he loves. Selah

⁵God ascends among shouts of joy, the LORD, with the sound of trumpets.

⁶Sing praise to God, sing praise; sing praise to our King, sing praise!

⁷Sing a song of wisdom, for God is King of the whole earth.

⁸God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne.

⁹The nobles of the peoples have assembled with the people of the God of Abraham. For the leaders of the earth belong to God; he is greatly exalted.

¹A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah. [1] The LORD is great and highly praised in the city of our God. His holy mountain,

²rising splendidly, is the joy of the whole earth. Mount Zion — the summit of Zaphon —  is the city of the great King.

³God is known as a stronghold in its citadels.

⁴Look! The kings assembled; they advanced together.

⁵They looked and froze with fear; they fled in terror.

⁶Trembling seized them there, agony like that of a woman in labor,

⁷as you wrecked the ships of Tarshish with the east wind.

⁸Just as we heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Armies, in the city of our God; God will establish it forever. Selah

⁹God, within your temple, we contemplate your faithful love.

¹⁰Like your name, God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with justice.

¹¹Mount Zion is glad. Judah’s villages rejoice because of your judgments.

¹²Go around Zion, encircle it; count its towers,

¹³note its ramparts; tour its citadels so that you can tell a future generation:

¹⁴“This God, our God forever and ever — he will always lead us.”