Bible in 90 Days Plan

¹Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men,

²who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually.

³They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah

⁴Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet.

⁵The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah

⁶I say to the LORD, You are my God; give ear to the voice of my pleas for mercy, O LORD!

⁷O LORD, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

⁸Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah

⁹As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!

¹⁰Let burning coals fall upon them! Let them be cast into fire, into miry pits, no more to rise!

¹¹Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!

¹²I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.

¹³Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name; the upright shall dwell in your presence.

¹O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!

²Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

³Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

⁴Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!

⁵Let a righteous man strike me — it is a kindness; let him rebuke me — it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

⁶When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.

⁷As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

⁸But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!

⁹Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!

¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.

¹With my voice I cry out to the LORD; with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD.

²I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him.

³When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

⁴Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul.

⁵I cry to you, O LORD; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

⁶Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me!

⁷Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.

¹Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!

²Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

³For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

⁴Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.

⁵I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.

⁶I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

⁷Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

⁸Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

⁹Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD! I have fled to you for refuge.

¹⁰Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!

¹¹For your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble!

¹²And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.

¹Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

²he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

³O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

⁴Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

⁵Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke!

⁶Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!

⁷Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners,

⁸whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

⁹I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,

¹⁰who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.

¹¹Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

¹²May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

¹³may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;

¹⁴may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets!

¹⁵Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!

¹I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.

²Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.

³Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

⁴One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.

⁵On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.

⁶They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness.

⁷They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

⁸The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

⁹The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.

¹⁰All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD, and all your saints shall bless you!

¹¹They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell of your power,

¹²to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.

¹³Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. [The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.]

¹⁴The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.

¹⁵The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.

¹⁶You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.

¹⁷The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.

¹⁸The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

¹⁹He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.

²⁰The LORD preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

²¹My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD, and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

¹Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!

²I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

³Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

⁵Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

⁶who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever;

⁷who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;

⁸the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.

⁹The LORD watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

¹⁰The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.

²The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel.

³He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

⁴He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.

⁵Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

⁶The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground.

⁷Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre!

⁸He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills.

⁹He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.

¹⁰His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man,

¹¹but the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

¹²Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

¹³For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.

¹⁴He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat.

¹⁵He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly.

¹⁶He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.

¹⁷He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?

¹⁸He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.

¹⁹He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.

²⁰He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the heights!

²Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts!

³Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!

⁴Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!

⁵Let them praise the name of the LORD! For he commanded and they were created.

⁶And he established them forever and ever; he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.

⁷Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps,

⁸fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!

⁹Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars!

¹⁰Beasts and all livestock, creeping things and flying birds!

¹¹Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!

¹²Young men and maidens together, old men and children!

¹³Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.

¹⁴He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly!

²Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!

³Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!

⁴For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.

⁵Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.

⁶Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands,

⁷to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,

⁸to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,

⁹to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!

²Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!

³Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!

⁴Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

⁵Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

⁶Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!

¹The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

²To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight,

³to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

⁴to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth —

⁵Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,

⁶to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.

⁷The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

⁸Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

⁹for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

¹⁰My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

¹¹If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;

¹²like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

¹³we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;

¹⁴throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse” —

¹⁵my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,

¹⁶for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

¹⁷For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird,

¹⁸but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.

¹⁹Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

²⁰Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice;

²¹at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

²²“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

²³If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.

²⁴Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,

²⁵because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,

²⁶I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

²⁷when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

²⁸Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

²⁹Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,

³⁰would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof,

³¹therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.

³²For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

³³but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”

¹My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,

²making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

³yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

⁴if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,

⁵then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

⁶For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

⁷he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

⁸guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.

⁹Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

¹⁰for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

¹¹discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,

¹²delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,

¹³who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

¹⁴who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,

¹⁵men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

¹⁶So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

¹⁷who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

¹⁸for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;

¹⁹none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.

²⁰So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

²¹For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,

²²but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.