Daily Wisdom Plan

Wise people seek wisdom, and where better to look than in books about wisdom. Join us as we walk through the books of Psalms, Proverbs, and Song of Solomon.

Today, we are reading Psalms 58, 59, 60.

Psalms 58

1	To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2	Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3	The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4	Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5	Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6	Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7	Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8	As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9	Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10	The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11	So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Psalms 59

1	To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
2	Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
3	For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
4	They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
5	Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
6	They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
7	Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
8	But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
9	Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defense.
10	The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
11	Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
12	For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
13	Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
14	And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
15	Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
16	But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.
17	Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defense, and the God of my mercy.

Psalms 60

1	To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
2	Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
3	Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
4	Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
5	That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
6	God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
7	Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
8	Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
9	Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
10	Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
11	Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
12	Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

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