Bible in 90 Days Plan

¹O LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out to you by day. I come to you at night.

²Now hear my prayer; listen to my cry.

³For my life is full of troubles, and death draws near.

⁴I am as good as dead, like a strong man with no strength left.

⁵They have left me among the dead, and I lie like a corpse in a grave. I am forgotten, cut off from your care.

⁶You have thrown me into the lowest pit, into the darkest depths.

⁷Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude

⁸You have driven my friends away by making me repulsive to them. I am in a trap with no way of escape.

⁹My eyes are blinded by my tears. Each day I beg for your help, O LORD; I lift my hands to you for mercy.

¹⁰Are your wonderful deeds of any use to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Interlude

¹¹Can those in the grave declare your unfailing love? Can they proclaim your faithfulness in the place of destruction?

¹²Can the darkness speak of your wonderful deeds? Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?

¹³O LORD, I cry out to you. I will keep on pleading day by day.

¹⁴O LORD, why do you reject me? Why do you turn your face from me?

¹⁵I have been sick and close to death since my youth. I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.

¹⁶Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me. Your terrors have paralyzed me.

¹⁷They swirl around me like floodwaters all day long. They have engulfed me completely.

¹⁸You have taken away my companions and loved ones. Darkness is my closest friend.

¹I will sing of the LORD’s unfailing love forever! Young and old will hear of your faithfulness.

²Your unfailing love will last forever. Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens.

³The LORD said, “I have made a covenant with David, my chosen servant. I have sworn this oath to him:

⁴‘I will establish your descendants as kings forever; they will sit on your throne from now until eternity.’” Interlude

⁵All heaven will praise your great wonders, LORD; myriads of angels will praise you for your faithfulness.

⁶For who in all of heaven can compare with the LORD? What mightiest angel is anything like the LORD?

⁷The highest angelic powers stand in awe of God. He is far more awesome than all who surround his throne.

⁸O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies! Where is there anyone as mighty as you, O LORD? You are entirely faithful.

⁹You rule the oceans. You subdue their storm-tossed waves.

¹⁰You crushed the great sea monster. You scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

¹¹The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; everything in the world is yours — you created it all.

¹²You created north and south. Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon praise your name.

¹³Powerful is your arm! Strong is your hand! Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Unfailing love and truth walk before you as attendants.

¹⁵Happy are those who hear the joyful call to worship, for they will walk in the light of your presence, LORD.

¹⁶They rejoice all day long in your wonderful reputation. They exult in your righteousness.

¹⁷You are their glorious strength. It pleases you to make us strong.

¹⁸Yes, our protection comes from the LORD, and he, the Holy One of Israel, has given us our king.

¹⁹Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people. You said, “I have raised up a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king.

²⁰I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.

²¹I will steady him with my hand; with my powerful arm I will make him strong.

²²His enemies will not defeat him, nor will the wicked overpower him.

²³I will beat down his adversaries before him and destroy those who hate him.

²⁴My faithfulness and unfailing love will be with him, and by my authority he will grow in power.

²⁵I will extend his rule over the sea, his dominion over the rivers.

²⁶And he will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’

²⁷I will make him my firstborn son, the mightiest king on earth.

²⁸I will love him and be kind to him forever; my covenant with him will never end.

²⁹I will preserve an heir for him; his throne will be as endless as the days of heaven.

³⁰But if his descendants forsake my instructions and fail to obey my regulations,

³¹if they do not obey my decrees and fail to keep my commands,

³²then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their disobedience with beating.

³³But I will never stop loving him nor fail to keep my promise to him.

³⁴No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said.

³⁵I have sworn an oath to David, and in my holiness I cannot lie:

³⁶His dynasty will go on forever; his kingdom will endure as the sun.

³⁷It will be as eternal as the moon, my faithful witness in the sky!” Interlude

³⁸But now you have rejected him and cast him off. You are angry with your anointed king.

³⁹You have renounced your covenant with him; you have thrown his crown in the dust.

⁴⁰You have broken down the walls protecting him and ruined every fort defending him.

⁴¹Everyone who comes along has robbed him, and he has become a joke to his neighbors.

⁴²You have strengthened his enemies and made them all rejoice.

⁴³You have made his sword useless and refused to help him in battle.

⁴⁴You have ended his splendor and overturned his throne.

⁴⁵You have made him old before his time and publicly disgraced him. Interlude

⁴⁶O LORD, how long will this go on? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?

⁴⁷Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!

⁴⁸No one can live forever; all will die. No one can escape the power of the grave. Interlude

⁴⁹Lord, where is your unfailing love? You promised it to David with a faithful pledge.

⁵⁰Consider, Lord, how your servants are disgraced! I carry in my heart the insults of so many people.

⁵¹Your enemies have mocked me, O LORD; they mock your anointed king wherever he goes.

⁵²Praise the LORD forever! Amen and amen!

¹Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!

²Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God.

³You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals!”

⁴For you, a thousand years are as a passing day, as brief as a few night hours.

⁵You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in the morning.

⁶In the morning it blooms and flourishes, but by evening it is dry and withered.

⁷We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.

⁸You spread out our sins before you — our secret sins — and you see them all.

⁹We live our lives beneath your wrath, ending our years with a groan.

¹⁰Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away.

¹¹Who can comprehend the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve.

¹²Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.

¹³O LORD, come back to us! How long will you delay? Take pity on your servants!

¹⁴Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives.

¹⁵Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good.

¹⁶Let us, your servants, see you work again; let our children see your glory.

¹⁷And may the Lord our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful!

¹Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

²This I declare about the LORD: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him.

³For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease.

⁴He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection.

⁵Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor the arrow that flies in the day.

⁶Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday.

⁷Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you.

⁸Just open your eyes, and see how the wicked are punished.

⁹If you make the LORD your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter,

¹⁰no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home.

¹¹For he will order his angels to protect you wherever you go.

¹²They will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.

¹³You will trample upon lions and cobras; you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet!

¹⁴The LORD says, “I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name.

¹⁵When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them.

¹⁶I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation.”

¹It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to the Most High.

²It is good to proclaim your unfailing love in the morning, your faithfulness in the evening,

³accompanied by a ten-stringed instrument, a harp, and the melody of a lyre.

⁴You thrill me, LORD, with all you have done for me! I sing for joy because of what you have done.

⁵O LORD, what great works you do! And how deep are your thoughts.

⁶Only a simpleton would not know, and only a fool would not understand this:

⁷Though the wicked sprout like weeds and evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

⁸But you, O LORD, will be exalted forever.

⁹Your enemies, LORD, will surely perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

¹⁰But you have made me as strong as a wild ox. You have anointed me with the finest oil.

¹¹My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies; my ears have heard the defeat of my wicked opponents.

¹²But the godly will flourish like palm trees and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.

¹³For they are transplanted to the LORD’s own house. They flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴Even in old age they will still produce fruit; they will remain vital and green.

¹⁵They will declare, “The LORD is just! He is my rock! There is no evil in him!”

¹The LORD is king! He is robed in majesty. Indeed, the LORD is robed in majesty and armed with strength. The world stands firm and cannot be shaken.

²Your throne, O LORD, has stood from time immemorial. You yourself are from the everlasting past.

³The floods have risen up, O LORD. The floods have roared like thunder; the floods have lifted their pounding waves.

⁴But mightier than the violent raging of the seas, mightier than the breakers on the shore — the LORD above is mightier than these!

⁵Your royal laws cannot be changed. Your reign, O LORD, is holy forever and ever.

¹O LORD, the God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, let your glorious justice shine forth!

²Arise, O Judge of the earth. Give the proud what they deserve.

³How long, O LORD? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?

⁴How long will they speak with arrogance? How long will these evil people boast?

⁵They crush your people, LORD, hurting those you claim as your own.

⁶They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans.

⁷“The LORD isn’t looking,” they say, “and besides, the God of Israel doesn’t care.”

⁸Think again, you fools! When will you finally catch on?

⁹Is he deaf — the one who made your ears? Is he blind — the one who formed your eyes?

¹⁰He punishes the nations — won’t he also punish you? He knows everything — doesn’t he also know what you are doing?

¹¹The LORD knows people’s thoughts; he knows they are worthless!

¹²Joyful are those you discipline, LORD, those you teach with your instructions.

¹³You give them relief from troubled times until a pit is dug to capture the wicked.

¹⁴The LORD will not reject his people; he will not abandon his special possession.

¹⁵Judgment will again be founded on justice, and those with virtuous hearts will pursue it.

¹⁶Who will protect me from the wicked? Who will stand up for me against evildoers?

¹⁷Unless the LORD had helped me, I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave.

¹⁸I cried out, “I am slipping!” but your unfailing love, O LORD, supported me.

¹⁹When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer.

²⁰Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side — leaders whose decrees permit injustice?

²¹They gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

²²But the LORD is my fortress; my God is the mighty rock where I hide.

²³God will turn the sins of evil people back on them. He will destroy them for their sins. The LORD our God will destroy them.

¹Come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.

²Let us come to him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to him.

³For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.

⁴He holds in his hands the depths of the earth and the mightiest mountains.

⁵The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too.

⁶Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the LORD our maker,

⁷for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today!

⁸The LORD says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness.

⁹For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did.

¹⁰For forty years I was angry with them, and I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’

¹¹So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”

¹Sing a new song to the LORD! Let the whole earth sing to the LORD!

²Sing to the LORD; praise his name. Each day proclaim the good news that he saves.

³Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about the amazing things he does.

⁴Great is the LORD! He is most worthy of praise! He is to be feared above all gods.

⁵The gods of other nations are mere idols, but the LORD made the heavens!

⁶Honor and majesty surround him; strength and beauty fill his sanctuary.

⁷O nations of the world, recognize the LORD; recognize that the LORD is glorious and strong.

⁸Give to the LORD the glory he deserves! Bring your offering and come into his courts.

⁹Worship the LORD in all his holy splendor. Let all the earth tremble before him.

¹⁰Tell all the nations, “The LORD reigns!” The world stands firm and cannot be shaken. He will judge all peoples fairly.

¹¹Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise!

¹²Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy! Let the trees of the forest sing for joy

¹³before the LORD, for he is coming! He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with justice, and the nations with his truth.

¹The LORD is king! Let the earth rejoice! Let the farthest coastlands be glad.

²Dark clouds surround him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

³Fire spreads ahead of him and burns up all his foes.

⁴His lightning flashes out across the world. The earth sees and trembles.

⁵The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.

⁶The heavens proclaim his righteousness; every nation sees his glory.

⁷Those who worship idols are disgraced — all who brag about their worthless gods — for every god must bow to him.

⁸Jerusalem has heard and rejoiced, and all the towns of Judah are glad because of your justice, O LORD!

⁹For you, O LORD, are supreme over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.

¹⁰You who love the LORD, hate evil! He protects the lives of his godly people and rescues them from the power of the wicked.

¹¹Light shines on the godly, and joy on those whose hearts are right.

¹²May all who are godly rejoice in the LORD and praise his holy name!

¹Sing a new song to the LORD, for he has done wonderful deeds. His right hand has won a mighty victory; his holy arm has shown his saving power!

²The LORD has announced his victory and has revealed his righteousness to every nation!

³He has remembered his promise to love and be faithful to Israel. The ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.

⁴Shout to the LORD, all the earth; break out in praise and sing for joy!

⁵Sing your praise to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and melodious song,

⁶with trumpets and the sound of the ram’s horn. Make a joyful symphony before the LORD, the King!

⁷Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise! Let the earth and all living things join in.

⁸Let the rivers clap their hands in glee! Let the hills sing out their songs of joy

⁹before the LORD, for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with justice, and the nations with fairness.

¹The LORD is king! Let the nations tremble! He sits on his throne between the cherubim. Let the whole earth quake!

²The LORD sits in majesty in Jerusalem, exalted above all the nations.

³Let them praise your great and awesome name. Your name is holy!

⁴Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established fairness. You have acted with justice and righteousness throughout Israel.

⁵Exalt the LORD our God! Bow low before his feet, for he is holy!

⁶Moses and Aaron were among his priests; Samuel also called on his name. They cried to the LORD for help, and he answered them.

⁷He spoke to Israel from the pillar of cloud, and they followed the laws and decrees he gave them.

⁸O LORD our God, you answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, but you punished them when they went wrong.

⁹Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy mountain in Jerusalem, for the LORD our God is holy!

¹Shout with joy to the LORD, all the earth!

²Worship the LORD with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy.

³Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

⁴Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name.

⁵For the LORD is good. His unfailing love continues forever, and his faithfulness continues to each generation.