Daily Wisdom Plan

¹To the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. God be gracious and kind-hearted to us and bless us, And make His face shine [with favor] on us— Selah.

²That Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation and deliverance among all nations.

³Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You.

⁴Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, For You will judge the people fairly And guide the nations on earth. Selah.

⁵Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You.

⁶The earth has yielded its harvest [as evidence of His approval]; God, our God, blesses us.

⁷God blesses us, And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].

¹To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song. Let God arise, and His enemies be scattered; Let those who hate Him flee before Him.

²As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked and guilty perish before [the presence of] God.

³But let the righteous be glad; let them be in good spirits before God, Yes, let them rejoice with delight.

⁴Sing to God, sing praises to His name; Lift up a song for Him who rides through the desert— His name is the LORD—be in good spirits before Him.

⁵A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

⁶God makes a home for the lonely; He leads the prisoners into prosperity, Only the stubborn and rebellious dwell in a parched land.

⁷O God, when You went out before Your people, When You marched through the wilderness, Selah.

⁸The earth trembled; The heavens also poured down rain at the presence of God; Sinai itself trembled at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

⁹You, O God, sent abroad plentiful rain; You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched and weary.

¹⁰Your flock found a dwelling place in it; O God, in Your goodness You provided for the poor.

¹¹The Lord gives the command [to take Canaan]; The women who proclaim the good news are a great host (army);

¹²"The kings of the [enemies'] armies flee, they flee, And the beautiful woman who remains at home divides the spoil [left behind]."

¹³When you lie down [to rest] among the sheepfolds, You [Israel] are like the wings of a dove [of victory] overlaid with silver, Its feathers glistening with gold [trophies taken from the enemy].

¹⁴When the Almighty scattered [the Canaanite] kings in the land of Canaan, It was snowing on Zalmon.

¹⁵A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A [high] mountain of many summits is Mount Bashan [rising east of the Jordan].

¹⁶Why do you look with envy, mountains with many peaks, At the mountain [of the city of Zion] which God has desired for His dwelling place? Yes, the LORD will dwell there forever.

¹⁷The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them as He was at Sinai, in holiness.

¹⁸You have ascended on high, You have led away captive Your captives; You have received gifts among men, Even from the rebellious also, that the LORD God may dwell there.

¹⁹Blessed be the Lord, who bears our burden day by day, The God who is our salvation! Selah.

²⁰God is to us a God of acts of salvation; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death [setting us free].

²¹Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies, The hairy scalp of one who goes on in his guilty ways.

²²The Lord said, "I will bring your enemies back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the [Red] Sea,

²³That your foot may crush them in blood, That the tongue of your dogs may have its share from your enemies."

²⁴They have seen Your [solemn] procession, O God, The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary [in holiness].

²⁵The singers go in front, the players of instruments last; Between them the maidens playing on tambourines.

²⁶Bless God in the congregations, [give thanks, gratefully praise Him], The LORD, you who are from [Jacob] the fountain of Israel.

²⁷The youngest is there, Benjamin, ruling them, The princes of Judah and their company [the southern tribes], The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali [the northern tribes].

²⁸Your God has commanded your strength [your power in His service and your resistance to temptation]; Show Yourself strong, O God, who acted on our behalf.

²⁹Because of Your temple at Jerusalem [Pagan] kings will bring gifts to You [out of respect].

³⁰Rebuke the beasts [living] among the reeds [in Egypt], The herd of bulls (the leaders) with the calves of the peoples; Trampling underfoot the pieces of silver; He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

³¹Princes and envoys shall come from Egypt; Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands [with the offerings of submission] to God.

³²Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth, Sing praises to the Lord! Selah.

³³To Him who rides in the highest heavens, the ancient heavens, Behold, He sends out His voice, a mighty and majestic voice.

³⁴Ascribe strength to God; His majesty is over Israel And His strength is in the skies.

³⁵O God, You are awesome and profoundly majestic from Your sanctuary; The God of Israel gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!

¹To the Chief Musician; set to [the tune of] "Lilies." A Psalm of David. Save me, O God, For the waters have threatened my life [they have come up to my neck].

²I have sunk in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, where a flood overwhelms me.

³I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; My eyes fail while I wait [with confident expectation] for my God.

⁴Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head; Those who would destroy me are powerful, being my enemies wrongfully; I am forced to restore what I did not steal.

⁵O God, You know my folly; My wrongs are not hidden from You.

⁶Do not let those who wait [confidently] for You be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; Do not let those who seek You [as necessary for life itself] be dishonored through me, O God of Israel,

⁷Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Confusion and dishonor have covered my face.

⁸I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mother's sons.

⁹For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the [mocking] insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

¹⁰When I wept and humbled myself with fasting, It became my reproach.

¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning], I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.

¹²They who sit in the [city's] gate talk about me and mock me, And I am the song of the drunkards.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, at an acceptable and opportune time; O God, in the greatness of Your favor and in the abundance of Your lovingkindness, Answer me with truth [that is, the faithfulness of Your salvation].

¹⁴Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep waters.

¹⁵Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me, Nor the deep waters swallow me up, Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is sweet and good and comforting; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me.

¹⁷Do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in distress; answer me quickly.

¹⁸Draw near to my soul and redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies [so that they do not delight in my distress].

¹⁹You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor [how I am insulted]; My adversaries are all before You [each one fully known].

²⁰Reproach and insults have broken my heart and I am so sick. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, And for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They (self-righteous hypocrites) also gave me gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²May their table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare [to them]; And when they are in peace [secure at their sacrificial feasts], may it become a trap.

²³May their eyes be dimmed so that they cannot see, And make their loins shake continually [in terror and weakness].

²⁴Pour out Your indignation on them, And let [the fierceness of] Your burning anger overtake them.

²⁵May their encampment be desolate; May no one dwell in their tents.

²⁶For they have persecuted him whom You have struck, And they tell of the pain of those whom You have pierced and wounded.

²⁷Add [unforgiven] iniquity to their iniquity [in Your book], And may they not come into Your righteousness.

²⁸May they be blotted out of the book of life [and their lives come to an end] And may they not be recorded with the righteous (those in right standing with God).

²⁹But I am sorrowful and in pain; May Your salvation, O God, set me [securely] on high.

³⁰I will praise the name of God with song And magnify Him with thanksgiving.

³¹And it will please the LORD better than an ox Or a young bull with horns and hoofs.

³²The humble have seen it and are glad; You who seek God [requiring Him as your greatest need], let your heart revive and live.

³³For the LORD hears the needy And does not despise His who are prisoners.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise Him, The seas and everything that moves in them.

³⁵For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, That His servants may remain there and possess it.

³⁶The descendants of His servants will inherit it, And those who love His name will dwell in it.