Daily Wisdom Plan

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.