Bible in 90 Days Plan

¹A psalm of David. [1] I will sing of faithful love and justice; I will sing praise to you, LORD.

²I will pay attention to the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will live with a heart of integrity in my house.

³I will not let anything worthless guide me. I hate the practice of transgression; it will not cling to me.

⁴A devious heart will be far from me; I will not be involved with evil.

⁵I will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbor; I cannot tolerate anyone with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.

⁶My eyes favor the faithful of the land so that they may sit down with me. The one who follows the way of integrity may serve me.

⁷No one who acts deceitfully will live in my palace; the one who tells lies will not be retained here to guide me.

⁸Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, wiping out all evildoers from the LORD’s city.

¹A prayer of a suffering person who is weak and pours out his lament before the LORD. [1] LORD, hear my prayer; let my cry for help come before you.

²Do not hide your face from me in my day of trouble. Listen closely to me; answer me quickly when I call.

³For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

⁴My heart is suffering, withered like grass; I even forget to eat my food.

⁵Because of the sound of my groaning, my flesh sticks to my bones.

⁶I am like an eagle owl, like a little owl among the ruins.

⁷I stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a roof.

⁸My enemies taunt me all day long; they ridicule and use my name as a curse.

⁹I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drinks with tears

¹⁰because of your indignation and wrath; for you have picked me up and thrown me aside.

¹¹My days are like a lengthening shadow, and I wither away like grass.

¹²But you, LORD, are enthroned forever; your fame endures to all generations.

¹³You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her — the appointed time has come.

¹⁴For your servants take delight in its stones and favor its dust.

¹⁵Then the nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory,

¹⁶for the LORD will rebuild Zion; he will appear in his glory.

¹⁷He will pay attention to the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.

¹⁸This will be written for a later generation, and a people who have not yet been created will praise the LORD:

¹⁹He looked down from his holy heights — the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth  —

²⁰to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to set free those condemned to die,

²¹so that they might declare the name of the LORD in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem,

²²when peoples and kingdoms are assembled to serve the LORD.

²³He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.

²⁴I say: “My God, do not take me in the middle of my life! Your years continue through all generations.

²⁵Long ago you established the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁶They will perish, but you will endure; all of them will wear out like clothing. You will change them like a garment, and they will pass away.

²⁷But you are the same, and your years will never end.

²⁸Your servants’ children will dwell securely, and their offspring will be established before you.”

¹Of David. [1] My soul, bless the LORD, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

²My soul, bless the LORD, and do not forget all his benefits.

³He forgives all your iniquity; he heals all your diseases.

⁴He redeems your life from the Pit; he crowns you with faithful love and compassion.

⁵He satisfies you with good things; your youth is renewed like the eagle.

⁶The LORD executes acts of righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

⁷He revealed his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel.

⁸The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love.

⁹He will not always accuse us or be angry forever.

¹⁰He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve or repaid us according to our iniquities.

¹¹For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his faithful love toward those who fear him.

¹²As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

¹³As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.

¹⁴For he knows what we are made of, remembering that we are dust.

¹⁵As for man, his days are like grass — he blooms like a flower of the field;

¹⁶when the wind passes over it, it vanishes, and its place is no longer known.

¹⁷But from eternity to eternity the LORD’s faithful love is toward those who fear him, and his righteousness toward the grandchildren

¹⁸of those who keep his covenant, who remember to observe his precepts.

¹⁹The LORD has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.

²⁰Bless the LORD, all his angels of great strength, who do his word, obedient to his command.

²¹Bless the LORD, all his armies, his servants who do his will.

²²Bless the LORD, all his works in all the places where he rules. My soul, bless the LORD!

¹My soul, bless the LORD! LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with majesty and splendor.

²He wraps himself in light as if it were a robe, spreading out the sky like a canopy,

³laying the beams of his palace on the waters above, making the clouds his chariot, walking on the wings of the wind,

⁴and making the winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.

⁵He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be shaken.

⁶You covered it with the deep as if it were a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

⁷At your rebuke the water fled; at the sound of your thunder they hurried away  —

⁸mountains rose and valleys sank  — to the place you established for them.

⁹You set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never cover the earth again.

¹⁰He causes the springs to gush into the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

¹¹They supply water for every wild beast; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²The birds of the sky live beside the springs; they make their voices heard among the foliage.

¹³He waters the mountains from his palace; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of your labor.

¹⁴He causes grass to grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, producing food from the earth,

¹⁵wine that makes human hearts glad — making his face shine with oil — and bread that sustains human hearts.

¹⁶The trees of the LORD flourish, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

¹⁷There the birds make their nests; storks make their homes in the pine trees.

¹⁸The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.

¹⁹He made the moon to mark the festivals; the sun knows when to set.

²⁰You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals stir.

²¹The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

²²The sun rises; they go back and lie down in their dens.

²³Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.

²⁴How countless are your works, LORD! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number — living things both large and small.

²⁶There the ships move about, and Leviathan, which you formed to play there.

²⁷All of them wait for you to give them their food at the right time.

²⁸When you give it to them, they gather it; when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

²⁹When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

³⁰When you send your breath, they are created, and you renew the surface of the ground.

³¹May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works.

³²He looks at the earth, and it trembles; he touches the mountains, and they pour out smoke.

³³I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I live.

³⁴May my meditation be pleasing to him; I will rejoice in the LORD.

³⁵May sinners vanish from the earth and wicked people be no more. My soul, bless the LORD! Hallelujah!

¹Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; proclaim his deeds among the peoples.

²Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell about all his wondrous works!

³Honor his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

⁴Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.

⁵Remember the wondrous works he has done, his wonders, and the judgments he has pronounced,

⁶you offspring of Abraham his servant, Jacob’s descendants — his chosen ones.

⁷He is the LORD our God; his judgments govern the whole earth.

⁸He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he ordained for a thousand generations  —

⁹the covenant he made with Abraham, swore to Isaac,

¹⁰and confirmed to Jacob as a decree and to Israel as a permanent covenant:

¹¹“I will give the land of Canaan to you as your inherited portion.”

¹²When they were few in number, very few indeed, and resident aliens in Canaan,

¹³wandering from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another,

¹⁴he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their behalf:

¹⁵“Do not touch my anointed ones, or harm my prophets.”

¹⁶He called down famine against the land and destroyed the entire food supply.

¹⁷He had sent a man ahead of them — Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

¹⁸They hurt his feet with shackles; his neck was put in an iron collar.

¹⁹Until the time his prediction came true, the word of the LORD tested him.

²⁰The king sent for him and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.

²¹He made him master of his household, ruler over all his possessions  —

²²binding his officials at will and instructing his elders.

²³Then Israel went to Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.

²⁴The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them more numerous than their foes,

²⁵whose hearts he turned to hate his people and to deal deceptively with his servants.

²⁶He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

²⁷They performed his miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and it became dark — for did they not defy his commands?

²⁹He turned their water into blood and caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land was overrun with frogs, even in their royal chambers.

³¹He spoke, and insects came  — gnats throughout their country.

³²He gave them hail for rain, and lightning throughout their land.

³³He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke, and locusts came — young locusts without number.

³⁵They devoured all the vegetation in their land and consumed the produce of their land.

³⁶He struck all the firstborn in their land, all their first progeny.

³⁷Then he brought Israel out with silver and gold, and no one among his tribes stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they left, for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.

³⁹He spread a cloud as a covering and gave a fire to light up the night.

⁴⁰They asked, and he brought quail and satisfied them with bread from heaven.

⁴¹He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a stream in the desert.

⁴²For he remembered his holy promise to Abraham his servant.

⁴³He brought his people out with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy.

⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited what other peoples had worked for.

⁴⁵All this happened so that they might keep his statutes and obey his instructions. Hallelujah!

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever.

²Who can declare the LORD’s mighty acts or proclaim all the praise due him?

³How happy are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people. Come to me with your salvation

⁵so that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice in the joy of your nation, and boast about your heritage.

⁶Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp the significance of your wondrous works or remember your many acts of faithful love; instead, they rebelled by the sea — the Red Sea.

⁸Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, to make his power known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.

¹⁰He saved them from the power of the adversary; he redeemed them from the power of the enemy.

¹¹Water covered their foes; not one of them remained.

¹²Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.

¹³They soon forgot his works and would not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴They were seized with craving in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

¹⁵He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶In the camp they were envious of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD’s holy one.

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

¹⁸Fire blazed throughout their assembly; flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁹At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped the cast metal image.

²⁰They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

²¹They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham, awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea.

²³So he said he would have destroyed them — if Moses his chosen one had not stood before him in the breach to turn his wrath away from destroying them.

²⁴They despised the pleasant land and did not believe his promise.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the LORD.

²⁶So he raised his hand against them with an oath that he would make them fall in the desert

²⁷and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them throughout the lands.

²⁸They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

²⁹They angered the LORD with their deeds, and a plague broke out against them.

³⁰But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stopped.

³¹It was credited to him as righteousness throughout all generations to come.

³²They angered the LORD at the Waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them;

³³for they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them

³⁵but mingled with the nations and adopted their ways.

³⁶They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

³⁷They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

³⁸They shed innocent blood — the blood of their sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; so the land became polluted with blood.

³⁹They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

⁴⁰Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance.

⁴¹He handed them over to the nations; those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their power.

⁴³He rescued them many times, but they continued to rebel deliberately and were beaten down by their iniquity.

⁴⁴When he heard their cry, he took note of their distress,

⁴⁵remembered his covenant with them, and relented according to the abundance of his faithful love.

⁴⁶He caused them to be pitied before all their captors.

⁴⁷Save us, LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to your holy name and rejoice in your praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!

¹Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever.

²Let the redeemed of the LORD proclaim that he has redeemed them from the power of the foe

³and has gathered them from the lands — from the east and the west, from the north and the south.

⁴Some wandered in the desolate wilderness, finding no way to a city where they could live.

⁵They were hungry and thirsty; their spirits failed within them.

⁶Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he rescued them from their distress.

⁷He led them by the right path to go to a city where they could live.

⁸Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

⁹For he has satisfied the thirsty and filled the hungry with good things.

¹⁰Others sat in darkness and gloom  — prisoners in cruel chains  —

¹¹because they rebelled against God’s commands and despised the counsel of the Most High.

¹²He broke their spirits with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

¹³Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he saved them from their distress.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and gloom and broke their chains apart.

¹⁵Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

¹⁶For he has broken down the bronze gates and cut through the iron bars.

¹⁷Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their iniquities.

¹⁸They loathed all food and came near the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he saved them from their distress.

²⁰He sent his word and healed them; he rescued them from the Pit.

²¹Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

²²Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and announce his works with shouts of joy.

²³Others went to sea in ships, conducting trade on the vast water.

²⁴They saw the LORD’s works, his wondrous works in the deep.

²⁵He spoke and raised a stormy wind that stirred up the waves of the sea.

²⁶Rising up to the sky, sinking down to the depths, their courage melting away in anguish,

²⁷they reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and all their skill was useless.

²⁸Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress.

²⁹He stilled the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

³⁰They rejoiced when the waves grew quiet. Then he guided them to the harbor they longed for.

³¹Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

³²Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the council of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into desert, springs into thirsty ground,

³⁴and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

³⁵He turns a desert into a pool, dry land into springs.

³⁶He causes the hungry to settle there, and they establish a city where they can live.

³⁷They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.

³⁸He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; he does not let their livestock decrease.

³⁹When they are diminished and are humbled by cruel oppression and sorrow,

⁴⁰he pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

⁴¹But he lifts the needy out of their suffering and makes their families multiply like flocks.

⁴²The upright see it and rejoice, and all injustice shuts its mouth.

⁴³Let whoever is wise pay attention to these things and consider the LORD’s acts of faithful love.

¹A song. A psalm of David. [1] My heart is confident, God; I will sing; I will sing praises with the whole of my being.

²Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.

³I will praise you, LORD, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.

⁴For your faithful love is higher than the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

⁵God, be exalted above the heavens, and let your glory be over the whole earth.

⁶Save with your right hand and answer me so that those you love may be rescued.

⁷God has spoken in his sanctuary: “I will celebrate! I will divide up Shechem. I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.

⁹Moab is my washbasin; I throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

¹⁰Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

¹¹God, haven’t you rejected us? God, you do not march out with our armies.

¹²Give us aid against the foe, for human help is worthless.

¹³With God we will perform valiantly; he will trample our foes.

¹For the choir director. A psalm of David. [1] God of my praise, do not be silent.

²For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

³They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

⁴In return for my love they accuse me, but I continue to pray.

⁵They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁶Set a wicked person over him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, let him be found guilty, and let his prayer be counted as sin.

⁸Let his days be few; let another take over his position.

⁹Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children wander as beggars, searching for food far from their demolished homes.

¹¹Let a creditor seize all he has; let strangers plunder what he has worked for.

¹²Let no one show him kindness, and let no one be gracious to his fatherless children.

¹³Let the line of his descendants be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the next generation.

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and do not let his mother’s sin be blotted out.

¹⁵Let their sins always remain before the LORD, and let him remove all memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶For he did not think to show kindness, but pursued the suffering, needy, and brokenhearted in order to put them to death.

¹⁷He loved cursing — let it fall on him; he took no delight in blessing — let it be far from him.

¹⁸He wore cursing like his coat — let it enter his body like water and go into his bones like oil.

¹⁹Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself, like a belt he always wears.

²⁰Let this be the LORD’s payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.

²¹But you, LORD, my Lord, deal kindly with me for your name’s sake; because your faithful love is good, rescue me.

²²For I am suffering and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

²³I fade away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

²⁴My knees are weak from fasting, and my body is emaciated.

²⁵I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.

²⁶Help me, LORD my God; save me according to your faithful love

²⁷so they may know that this is your hand and that you, LORD, have done it.

²⁸Though they curse, you will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.

²⁹My accusers will be clothed with disgrace; they will wear their shame like a cloak.

³⁰I will fervently thank the LORD with my mouth; I will praise him in the presence of many.

³¹For he stands at the right hand of the needy to save him from those who would condemn him.

¹A psalm of David. [1] This is the declaration of the LORD to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.”

²The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion. Rule over your surrounding enemies.

³Your people will volunteer on your day of battle. In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, the dew of your youth belongs to you.

⁴The LORD has sworn an oath and will not take it back: “You are a priest forever according to the pattern of Melchizedek.”

⁵The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his anger.

⁶He will judge the nations, heaping up corpses; he will crush leaders over the entire world.

⁷He will drink from the brook by the road; therefore, he will lift up his head.

¹Hallelujah! I will praise the LORD with all my heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.

²The LORD’s works are great, studied by all who delight in them.

³All that he does is splendid and majestic; his righteousness endures forever.

⁴He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered. The LORD is gracious and compassionate.

⁵He has provided food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.

⁶He has shown his people the power of his works by giving them the inheritance of the nations.

⁷The works of his hands are truth and justice; all his instructions are trustworthy.

⁸They are established forever and ever, enacted in truth and in uprightness.

⁹He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awe-inspiring.

¹⁰The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his instructions have good insight. His praise endures forever.

¹Hallelujah! Happy is the person who fears the LORD, taking great delight in his commands.

²His descendants will be powerful in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

³Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

⁴Light shines in the darkness for the upright. He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

⁵Good will come to the one who lends generously and conducts his business fairly.

⁶He will never be shaken. The righteous one will be remembered forever.

⁷He will not fear bad news; his heart is confident, trusting in the LORD.

⁸His heart is assured; he will not fear. In the end he will look in triumph on his foes.

⁹He distributes freely to the poor; his righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted in honor.

¹⁰The wicked one will see it and be angry; he will gnash his teeth in despair. The desire of the wicked leads to ruin.

¹Hallelujah! Give praise, servants of the LORD; praise the name of the LORD.

²Let the name of the LORD be blessed both now and forever.

³From the rising of the sun to its setting, let the name of the LORD be praised.

⁴The LORD is exalted above all the nations, his glory above the heavens.

⁵Who is like the LORD our God — the one enthroned on high,

⁶who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?

⁷He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the trash heap

⁸in order to seat them with nobles — with the nobles of his people.

⁹He gives the childless woman a household, making her the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!