Daily Wisdom Plan

¹For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm. A song. [1] May God be gracious to us and bless us; may he make his face shine upon us Selah

²so that your way may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.

³Let the peoples praise you, God; let all the peoples praise you.

⁴Let the nations rejoice and shout for joy, for you judge the peoples with fairness and lead the nations on earth. Selah

⁵Let the peoples praise you, God, let all the peoples praise you.

⁶The earth has produced its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.

⁷God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him.

¹For the choir director. A psalm of David. A song. [1] God arises. His enemies scatter, and those who hate him flee from his presence.

²As smoke is blown away, so you blow them away. As wax melts before the fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

³But the righteous are glad; they rejoice before God and celebrate with joy.

⁴Sing to God! Sing praises to his name. Exalt him who rides on the clouds  —  his name is the LORD  — and celebrate before him.

⁵God in his holy dwelling is a father of the fatherless and a champion of widows.

⁶God provides homes for those who are deserted. He leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious live in a scorched land.

⁷God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the desert, Selah

⁸the earth trembled and the skies poured rain before God, the God of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

⁹You, God, showered abundant rain; you revived your inheritance when it languished.

¹⁰Your people settled in it; God, you provided for the poor by your goodness.

¹¹The Lord gave the command; a great company of women brought the good news:

¹²“The kings of the armies flee — they flee!” She who stays at home divides the spoil.

¹³While you lie among the sheep pens, the wings of a dove are covered with silver, and its feathers with glistening gold.

¹⁴When the Almighty scattered kings in the land, it snowed on Zalmon.

¹⁵Mount Bashan is God’s towering mountain; Mount Bashan is a mountain of many peaks.

¹⁶Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks, at the mountain God desired for his abode? The LORD will dwell there forever!

¹⁷God’s chariots are tens of thousands, thousands and thousands; the Lord is among them in the sanctuary as he was at Sinai.

¹⁸You ascended to the heights, taking away captives; you received gifts from people, even from the rebellious, so that the LORD God might dwell there.

¹⁹Blessed be the Lord! Day after day he bears our burdens; God is our salvation. Selah

²⁰Our God is a God of salvation, and escape from death belongs to the LORD my Lord.

²¹Surely God crushes the heads of his enemies, the hairy brow of one who goes on in his guilty acts.

²²The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the sea

²³so that your foot may wade in blood and your dogs’ tongues may have their share from the enemies.”

²⁴People have seen your procession, God, the procession of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

²⁵Singers lead the way, with musicians following; among them are young women playing tambourines.

²⁶Bless God in the assemblies; bless the LORD from the fountain of Israel.

²⁷There is Benjamin, the youngest, leading them, the rulers of Judah in their assembly, the rulers of Zebulun, the rulers of Naphtali.

²⁸Your God has decreed your strength. Show your strength, God, you who have acted on our behalf.

²⁹Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings will bring tribute to you.

³⁰Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample underfoot those with bars of silver. Scatter the peoples who take pleasure in war.

³¹Ambassadors will come from Egypt; Cush will stretch out its hands to God.

³²Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; sing praise to the Lord, Selah

³³to him who rides in the ancient, highest heavens. Look, he thunders with his powerful voice!

³⁴Ascribe power to God. His majesty is over Israel, his power is among the clouds.

³⁵God, you are awe-inspiring in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!

¹For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” Of David. [1] Save me, God, for the water has risen to my neck.

²I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing; I have come into deep water, and a flood sweeps over me.

³I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

⁴Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head; my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me, are powerful. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

⁵God, you know my foolishness, and my guilty acts are not hidden from you.

⁶Do not let those who put their hope in you be disgraced because of me, Lord GOD of Armies; do not let those who seek you be humiliated because of me, God of Israel.

⁷For I have endured insults because of you, and shame has covered my face.

⁸I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons

⁹because zeal for your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

¹⁰I mourned and fasted, but it brought me insults.

¹¹I wore sackcloth as my clothing, and I was a joke to them.

¹²Those who sit at the city gate talk about me, and drunkards make up songs about me.

¹³But as for me, LORD, my prayer to you is for a time of favor. In your abundant, faithful love, God, answer me with your sure salvation.

¹⁴Rescue me from the miry mud; don’t let me sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water.

¹⁵Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over me or the deep swallow me up; don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, LORD, for your faithful love is good. In keeping with your abundant compassion, turn to me.

¹⁷Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

¹⁸Come near to me and redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies.

¹⁹You know the insults I endure — my shame and disgrace. You are aware of all my adversaries.

²⁰Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I waited for sympathy, but there was none; for comforters, but found no one.

²¹Instead, they gave me gall for my food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table set before them be a snare, and let it be a trap for their allies.

²³Let their eyes grow too dim to see, and let their hips continually quake.

²⁴Pour out your rage on them, and let your burning anger overtake them.

²⁵Make their fortification desolate; may no one live in their tents.

²⁶For they persecute the one you struck and talk about the pain of those you wounded.

²⁷Charge them with crime on top of crime; do not let them share in your righteousness.

²⁸Let them be erased from the book of life and not be recorded with the righteous.

²⁹But as for me — poor and in pain — let your salvation protect me, God.

³⁰I will praise God’s name with song and exalt him with thanksgiving.

³¹That will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.

³²The humble will see it and rejoice. You who seek God, take heart!

³³For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them,

³⁵for God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah. They will live there and possess it.

³⁶The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will live in it.