Bible in 90 Days Plan

¹For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph. A song. [1] We give thanks to you, God; we give thanks to you, for your name is near. People tell about your wondrous works.

²“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.

³When the earth and all its inhabitants shake, I am the one who steadies its pillars. Selah

⁴I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

⁵Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak arrogantly.’”

⁶Exaltation does not come from the east, the west, or the desert,

⁷for God is the Judge: He brings down one and exalts another.

⁸For there is a cup in the LORD’s hand, full of wine blended with spices, and he pours from it. All the wicked of the earth will drink, draining it to the dregs.

⁹As for me, I will tell about him forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰“I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”

¹For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song. [1] God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.

²His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.

³There he shatters the bow’s flaming arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah

⁴You are resplendent and majestic coming down from the mountains of prey.

⁵The brave-hearted have been plundered; they have slipped into their final sleep. None of the warriors was able to lift a hand.

⁶At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse lay still.

⁷And you — you are to be feared. When you are angry, who can stand before you?

⁸From heaven you pronounced judgment. The earth feared and grew quiet

⁹when God rose up to judge and to save all the lowly of the earth. Selah

¹⁰Even human wrath will praise you; you will clothe yourself with the wrath that remains.

¹¹Make and keep your vows to the LORD your God; let all who are around him bring tribute to the awe-inspiring one.

¹²He humbles the spirit of leaders; he is feared by the kings of the earth.

¹For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm. [1] I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me.

²I sought the Lord in my day of trouble. My hands were continually lifted up all night long; I refused to be comforted.

³I think of God; I groan; I meditate; my spirit becomes weak. Selah

⁴You have kept me from closing my eyes; I am troubled and cannot speak.

⁵I consider days of old, years long past.

⁶At night I remember my music; I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.

⁷“Will the Lord reject forever and never again show favor?

⁸Has his faithful love ceased forever? Is his promise at an end for all generations?

⁹Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” Selah

¹⁰So I say, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

¹¹I will remember the LORD’s works; yes, I will remember your ancient wonders.

¹²I will reflect on all you have done and meditate on your actions.

¹³God, your way is holy. What god is great like God?

¹⁴You are the God who works wonders; you revealed your strength among the peoples.

¹⁵With power you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

¹⁶The water saw you, God. The water saw you; it trembled. Even the depths shook.

¹⁷The clouds poured down water. The storm clouds thundered; your arrows flashed back and forth.

¹⁸The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind; lightning lit up the world. The earth shook and quaked.

¹⁹Your way went through the sea and your path through the vast water, but your footprints were unseen.

²⁰You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

¹A of Asaph. [1] My people, hear my instruction; listen to the words from my mouth.

²I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past  —

³things we have heard and known and that our fathers have passed down to us.

⁴We will not hide them from their children, but will tell a future generation the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, his might, and the wondrous works he has performed.

⁵He established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children

⁶so that a future generation — children yet to be born — might know. They were to rise and tell their children

⁷so that they might put their confidence in God and not forget God’s works, but keep his commands.

⁸Then they would not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle.

¹⁰They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.

¹¹They forgot what he had done, the wondrous works he had shown them.

¹²He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, the territory of Zoan.

¹³He split the sea and brought them across; the water stood firm like a wall.

¹⁴He led them with a cloud by day and with a fiery light throughout the night.

¹⁵He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.

¹⁶He brought streams out of the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

¹⁷But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

¹⁸They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved.

¹⁹They spoke against God, saying, “Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?

²⁰Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out; torrents overflowed. But can he also provide bread or furnish meat for his people?”

²¹Therefore, the LORD heard and became furious; then fire broke out against Jacob, and anger flared up against Israel

²²because they did not believe God or rely on his salvation.

²³He gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.

²⁴He rained manna for them to eat; he gave them grain from heaven.

²⁵People ate the bread of angels. He sent them an abundant supply of food.

²⁶He made the east wind blow in the skies and drove the south wind by his might.

²⁷He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas.

²⁸He made them fall in the camp, all around the tents.

²⁹The people ate and were completely satisfied, for he gave them what they craved.

³⁰Before they had turned from what they craved, while the food was still in their mouths,

³¹God’s anger flared up against them, and he killed some of their best men. He struck down Israel’s fit young men.

³²Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe his wondrous works.

³³He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.

³⁴When he killed some of them, the rest began to seek him; they repented and searched for God.

³⁵They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their Redeemer.

³⁶But they deceived him with their mouths, they lied to him with their tongues,

³⁷their hearts were insincere toward him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

³⁸Yet he was compassionate; he atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often turned his anger aside and did not unleash all his wrath.

³⁹He remembered that they were only flesh, a wind that passes and does not return.

⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert.

⁴¹They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

⁴²They did not remember his power shown on the day he redeemed them from the foe,

⁴³when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt and his wonders in the territory of Zoan.

⁴⁴He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.

⁴⁶He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.

⁴⁸He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.

⁴⁹He sent his burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity — a band of deadly messengers.

⁵⁰He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

⁵¹He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.

⁵²He led his people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

⁵³He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴He brought them to his holy territory, to the mountain his right hand acquired.

⁵⁵He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶But they rebelliously tested the Most High God, for they did not keep his decrees.

⁵⁷They treacherously turned away like their fathers; they became warped like a faulty bow.

⁵⁸They enraged him with their high places and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.

⁵⁹God heard and became furious; he completely rejected Israel.

⁶⁰He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he resided among mankind.

⁶¹He gave up his strength to captivity and his splendor to the hand of a foe.

⁶²He surrendered his people to the sword because he was enraged with his heritage.

⁶³Fire consumed his chosen young men, and his young women had no wedding songs.

⁶⁴His priests fell by the sword, and the widows could not lament.

⁶⁵The Lord awoke as if from sleep, like a warrior from the effects of wine.

⁶⁶He beat back his foes; he gave them lasting disgrace.

⁶⁷He rejected the tent of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

⁶⁸He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.

⁶⁹He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.

⁷⁰He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;

⁷¹he brought him from tending ewes to be shepherd over his people Jacob — over Israel, his inheritance.

⁷²He shepherded them with a pure heart and guided them with his skillful hands.

¹A psalm of Asaph. [1] God, the nations have invaded your inheritance, desecrated your holy temple, and turned Jerusalem into ruins.

²They gave the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky for food, the flesh of your faithful ones to the beasts of the earth.

³They poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

⁴We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

⁵How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy keep burning like fire?

⁶Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,

⁷for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

⁸Do not hold past iniquities against us; let your compassion come to us quickly, for we have become very weak.

⁹God of our salvation, help us  — for the glory of your name. Rescue us and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake.

¹⁰Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, let vengeance for the shed blood of your servants be known among the nations.

¹¹Let the groans of the prisoners reach you; according to your great power, preserve those condemned to die.

¹²Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors the reproach they have hurled at you, Lord.

¹³Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will thank you forever; we will declare your praise to generation after generation.

¹For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” A testimony of Asaph. A psalm. [1] Listen, Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; you who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine

²on Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Rally your power and come to save us.

³Restore us, God; make your face shine on us, so that we may be saved.

⁴LORD God of Armies, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?

⁵You fed them the bread of tears and gave them a full measure of tears to drink.

⁶You put us at odds with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

⁷Restore us, God of Armies; make your face shine on us, so that we may be saved.

⁸You dug up a vine from Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.

⁹You cleared a place for it; it took root and filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

¹¹It sent out sprouts toward the Sea and shoots toward the River.

¹²Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

¹³Boars from the forest tear at it and creatures of the field feed on it.

¹⁴Return, God of Armies. Look down from heaven and see; take care of this vine,

¹⁵the root your right hand planted, the son that you made strong for yourself.

¹⁶It was cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

¹⁷Let your hand be with the man at your right hand, with the son of man you have made strong for yourself.

¹⁸Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹Restore us, LORD, God of Armies; make your face shine on us, so that we may be saved.

¹For the choir director: on the . Of Asaph. [1] Sing for joy to God our strength; shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.

²Lift up a song — play the tambourine, the melodious lyre, and the harp.

³Blow the horn on the day of our feasts during the new moon and during the full moon.

⁴For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

⁵He set it up as a decree for Joseph when he went throughout the land of Egypt. I heard an unfamiliar language:

⁶“I relieved his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from carrying the basket.

⁷You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the thundercloud. I tested you at the Waters of Meribah. Selah

⁸Listen, my people, and I will admonish you. Israel, if you would only listen to me!

⁹There must not be a strange god among you; you must not bow down to a foreign god.

¹⁰I am the LORD  your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel did not obey me.

¹²So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own plans.

¹³If only my people would listen to me and Israel would follow my ways,

¹⁴I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.”

¹⁵Those who hate the LORD would cower to him; their doom would last forever.

¹⁶But he would feed Israel with the best wheat. “I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.”

¹A psalm of Asaph. [1] God stands in the divine assembly; he pronounces judgment among the gods:

²“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

³Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.

⁴Rescue the poor and needy; save them from the power of the wicked.”

⁵They do not know or understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

⁶I said, “You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.

⁷However, you will die like humans and fall like any other ruler.”

⁸Rise up, God, judge the earth, for all the nations belong to you.

¹A song. A psalm of Asaph. [1] God, do not keep silent. Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet.

²See how your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have acted arrogantly.

³They devise clever schemes against your people; they conspire against your treasured ones.

⁴They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”

⁵For they have conspired with one mind; they form an alliance against you  —

⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁸Even Assyria has joined them; they lend support to the sons of Lot. Selah

⁹Deal with them as you did with Midian, as you did with Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

¹⁰They were destroyed at En-dor; they became manure for the ground.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹²who said, “Let us seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”

¹³Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind.

¹⁴As fire burns a forest, as a flame blazes through mountains,

¹⁵so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.

¹⁶Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek your name, LORD.

¹⁷Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace.

¹⁸May they know that you alone — whose name is the LORD  — are the Most High over the whole earth.

¹For the choir director: on the . A psalm of the sons of Korah. [1] How lovely is your dwelling place, LORD of Armies.

²I long and yearn for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh cry out for the living God.

³Even a sparrow finds a home, and a swallow, a nest for herself where she places her young — near your altars, LORD of Armies, my King and my God.

⁴How happy are those who reside in your house, who praise you continually. Selah

⁵Happy are the people whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

⁶As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a source of springwater; even the autumn rain will cover it with blessings.

⁷They go from strength to strength; each appears before God in Zion.

⁸LORD God of Armies, hear my prayer; listen, God of Jacob. Selah

⁹Consider our shield, God; look on the face of your anointed one.

¹⁰Better a day in your courts than a thousand anywhere else. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God than live in the tents of wicked people.

¹¹For the LORD God is a sun and shield. The LORD grants favor and honor; he does not withhold the good from those who live with integrity.

¹²Happy is the person who trusts in you, LORD of Armies!

¹For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah. [1] LORD, you showed favor to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.

²You forgave your people’s guilt; you covered all their sin. Selah

³You withdrew all your fury; you turned from your burning anger.

⁴Return to us, God of our salvation, and abandon your displeasure with us.

⁵Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger for all generations?

⁶Will you not revive us again so that your people may rejoice in you?

⁷Show us your faithful love, LORD, and give us your salvation.

⁸I will listen to what God will say; surely the LORD will declare peace to his people, his faithful ones, and not let them go back to foolish ways.

⁹His salvation is very near those who fear him, so that glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Faithful love and truth will join together; righteousness and peace will embrace.

¹¹Truth will spring up from the earth, and righteousness will look down from heaven.

¹²Also, the LORD will provide what is good, and our land will yield its crops.

¹³Righteousness will go before him to prepare the way for his steps.

¹A prayer of David. [1] Listen, LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

²Protect my life, for I am faithful. You are my God; save your servant who trusts in you.

³Be gracious to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

⁴Bring joy to your servant’s life, because I appeal to you, Lord.

⁵For you, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive, abounding in faithful love to all who call on you.

⁶LORD, hear my prayer; listen to my plea for mercy.

⁷I call on you in the day of my distress, for you will answer me.

⁸Lord, there is no one like you among the gods, and there are no works like yours.

⁹All the nations you have made will come and bow down before you, Lord, and will honor your name.

¹⁰For you are great and perform wonders; you alone are God.

¹¹Teach me your way, LORD, and I will live by your truth. Give me an undivided mind to fear your name.

¹²I will praise you with all my heart, Lord my God, and will honor your name forever.

¹³For your faithful love for me is great, and you rescue my life from the depths of Sheol.

¹⁴God, arrogant people have attacked me; a gang of ruthless men intends to kill me. They do not let you guide them.

¹⁵But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth.

¹⁶Turn to me and be gracious to me. Give your strength to your servant; save the son of your female servant.

¹⁷Show me a sign of your goodness; my enemies will see and be put to shame because you, LORD, have helped and comforted me.

¹A psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. [1] The city he founded is on the holy mountains.

²The LORD loves Zion’s city gates more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

³Glorious things are said about you, city of God. Selah

⁴“I will make a record of those who know me: Rahab, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush — each one was born there.”

⁵And it will be said of Zion, “This one and that one were born in her.” The Most High himself will establish her.

⁶When he registers the peoples, the LORD will record, “This one was born there.” Selah

⁷Singers and dancers alike will say, “My whole source of joy is in you.”