Bible in 90 Days Plan

¹For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. I have a message from God in my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

²In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.

³The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good.

⁴Even on their beds they plot evil; they commit themselves to a sinful course and do not reject what is wrong.

⁵Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.

⁶Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.

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

⁸They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.

⁹For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

¹⁰Continue your love to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

¹¹May the foot of the proud not come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

¹²See how the evildoers lie fallen— thrown down, not able to rise!

¹Of David. Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong;

²for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.

³Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

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

⁵Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this:

⁶He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun.

⁷Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.

⁸Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil.

⁹For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

¹⁰A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

¹¹But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity.

¹²The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;

¹³but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.

¹⁴The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

¹⁵But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

¹⁶Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked;

¹⁷for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

¹⁸The blameless spend their days under the LORD’s care, and their inheritance will endure forever.

¹⁹In times of disaster they will not wither; in days of famine they will enjoy plenty.

²⁰But the wicked will perish: Though the LORD’s enemies are like the flowers of the field, they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.

²¹The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously;

²²those the LORD blesses will inherit the land, but those he curses will be destroyed.

²³The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him;

²⁴though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.

²⁵I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.

²⁶They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be a blessing.

²⁷Turn from evil and do good; then you will dwell in the land forever.

²⁸For the LORD loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed; the offspring of the wicked will perish.

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

³⁰The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak what is just.

³¹The law of their God is in their hearts; their feet do not slip.

³²The wicked lie in wait for the righteous, intent on putting them to death;

³³but the LORD will not leave them in the power of the wicked or let them be condemned when brought to trial.

³⁴Hope in the LORD and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.

³⁵I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,

³⁶but he soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be found.

³⁷Consider the blameless, observe the upright; a future awaits those who seek peace.

³⁸But all sinners will be destroyed; there will be no future for the wicked.

³⁹The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD; he is their stronghold in time of trouble.

⁴⁰The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.

¹A psalm of David. A petition. LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

²Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.

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

⁴My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.

⁵My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.

⁶I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.

⁷My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.

⁸I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

⁹All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.

¹⁰My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.

¹¹My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.

¹²Those who want to kill me set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.

¹³I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;

¹⁴I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.

¹⁵LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.

¹⁶For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”

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

¹⁸I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

¹⁹Many have become my enemies without cause; those who hate me without reason are numerous.

²⁰Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.

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

²²Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.

¹For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin; I will put a muzzle on my mouth while in the presence of the wicked.”

²So I remained utterly silent, not even saying anything good. But my anguish increased;

³my heart grew hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

⁴“Show me, LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.

⁵You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.

⁶“Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.

⁷“But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.

⁸Save me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools.

⁹I was silent; I would not open my mouth, for you are the one who has done this.

¹⁰Remove your scourge from me; I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

¹¹When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth— surely everyone is but a breath.

¹²“Hear my prayer, LORD, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with you as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were.

¹³Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again before I depart and am no more.”

¹For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry.

²He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.

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

⁴Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods.

⁵Many, LORD my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us. None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare.

⁶Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but my ears you have opened— burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.

⁷Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll.

⁸I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”

⁹I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, LORD, as you know.

¹⁰I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help. I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the great assembly.

¹¹Do not withhold your mercy from me, LORD; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.

¹²For troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me.

¹³Be pleased to save me, LORD; come quickly, LORD, to help me.

¹⁴May all who want to take my life be put to shame and confusion; may all who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

¹⁵May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” be appalled at their own shame.

¹⁶But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who long for your saving help always say, “The LORD is great!”

¹⁷But as for me, I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my deliverer; you are my God, do not delay.

¹For the director of music. A psalm of David. Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the LORD delivers them in times of trouble.

²The LORD protects and preserves them— they are counted among the blessed in the land— he does not give them over to the desire of their foes.

³The LORD sustains them on their sickbed and restores them from their bed of illness.

⁴I said, “Have mercy on me, LORD; heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

⁵My enemies say of me in malice, “When will he die and his name perish?”

⁶When one of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it around.

⁷All my enemies whisper together against me; they imagine the worst for me, saying,

⁸“A vile disease has afflicted him; he will never get up from the place where he lies.”

⁹Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me.

¹⁰But may you have mercy on me, LORD; raise me up, that I may repay them.

¹¹I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.

¹²Because of my integrity you uphold me and set me in your presence forever.

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

¹For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.

²My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

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

⁴These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.

⁵Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

⁶My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.

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

⁸By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”

¹⁰My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

¹¹Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

¹Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked.

²You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?

³Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.

⁴Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.

⁵Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

¹For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil. We have heard it with our ears, O God; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.

²With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our ancestors; you crushed the peoples and made our ancestors flourish.

³It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.

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

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

⁶I put no trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;

⁷but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame.

⁸In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever.

⁹But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.

¹⁰You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us.

¹¹You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.

¹²You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.

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

¹⁴You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

¹⁵I live in disgrace all day long, and my face is covered with shame

¹⁶at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.

¹⁷All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.

¹⁸Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.

¹⁹But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.

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

²¹would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?

²²Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

²³Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.

²⁴Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?

²⁵We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

²⁶Rise up and help us; rescue us because of your unfailing love.

¹For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil. A wedding song. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

²You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever.

³Gird your sword on your side, you mighty one; clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.

⁴In your majesty ride forth victoriously in the cause of truth, humility and justice; let your right hand achieve awesome deeds.

⁵Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet.

⁶Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.

⁷You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.

⁸All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes you glad.

⁹Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.

¹⁰Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father’s house.

¹¹Let the king be enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord.

¹²The city of Tyre will come with a gift, people of wealth will seek your favor.

¹³All glorious is the princess within her chamber; her gown is interwoven with gold.

¹⁴In embroidered garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions follow her— those brought to be with her.

¹⁵Led in with joy and gladness, they enter the palace of the king.

¹⁶Your sons will take the place of your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.

¹⁷I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.

¹For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

²Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

³though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.

⁴There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

⁵God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.

⁶Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

⁷The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.

⁸Come and see what the LORD has done, the desolations he has brought on the earth.

⁹He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.

¹⁰He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

¹¹The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.

¹For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.

²For the LORD Most High is awesome, the great King over all the earth.

³He subdued nations under us, peoples under our feet.

⁴He chose our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved.

⁵God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD amid the sounding of trumpets.

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

⁷For God is the King of all the earth; sing to him a psalm of praise.

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

⁹The nobles of the nations assemble as the people of the God of Abraham, for the kings of the earth belong to God; he is greatly exalted.

¹A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.

²Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King.

³God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress.

⁴When the kings joined forces, when they advanced together,

⁵they saw her and were astounded; they fled in terror.

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

⁷You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind.

⁸As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever.

⁹Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.

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

¹¹Mount Zion rejoices, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments.

¹²Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers,

¹³consider well her ramparts, view her citadels, that you may tell of them to the next generation.

¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.