Daily Wisdom Plan

¹For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us—

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

³May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you.

⁴May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples with equity and guide the nations of the earth.

⁵May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you.

⁶The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.

⁷May God bless us still, so that all the ends of the earth will fear him.

¹For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. A song. May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him.

²May you blow them away like smoke— as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God.

³But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful.

⁴Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him—his name is the LORD.

⁵A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

⁶God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

⁷When you, God, went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness,

⁸the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

⁹You gave abundant showers, O God; you refreshed your weary inheritance.

¹⁰Your people settled in it, and from your bounty, God, you provided for the poor.

¹¹The Lord announces the word, and the women who proclaim it are a mighty throng:

¹²“Kings and armies flee in haste; the women at home divide the plunder.

¹³Even while you sleep among the sheep pens, the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold.”

¹⁴When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like snow fallen on Mount Zalmon.

¹⁵Mount Bashan, majestic mountain, Mount Bashan, rugged mountain,

¹⁶why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the LORD himself will dwell forever?

¹⁷The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.

¹⁸When you ascended on high, you took many captives; you received gifts from people, even from the rebellious— that you, LORD God, might dwell there.

¹⁹Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.

²⁰Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death.

²¹Surely God will crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.

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

²³that your feet may wade in the blood of your foes, while the tongues of your dogs have their share.”

²⁴Your procession, God, has come into view, the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.

²⁵In front are the singers, after them the musicians; with them are the young women playing the timbrels.

²⁶Praise God in the great congregation; praise the LORD in the assembly of Israel.

²⁷There is the little tribe of Benjamin, leading them, there the great throng of Judah’s princes, and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.

²⁸Summon your power, God; show us your strength, our God, as you have done before.

²⁹Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings will bring you gifts.

³⁰Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

³¹Envoys will come from Egypt; Cush will submit herself to God.

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

³³to him who rides across the highest heavens, the ancient heavens, who thunders with mighty voice.

³⁴Proclaim the power of God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose power is in the heavens.

³⁵You, God, are awesome in your sanctuary; the God of Israel gives power and strength to his people. Praise be to God!

¹For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.

²I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.

³I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

⁴Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.

⁵You, God, know my folly; my guilt is not hidden from you.

⁶Lord, the LORD Almighty, may those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me; God of Israel, may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me.

⁷For I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face.

⁸I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother’s children;

⁹for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.

¹⁰When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;

¹¹when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.

¹²Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

¹³But I pray to you, LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.

¹⁴Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.

¹⁵Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, LORD, out of the goodness of your love; in your great mercy turn to me.

¹⁷Do not hide your face from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.

¹⁸Come near and rescue me; deliver me because of my foes.

¹⁹You know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed; all my enemies are before you.

²⁰Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.

²¹They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.

²²May the table set before them become a snare; may it become retribution and a trap.

²³May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.

²⁴Pour out your wrath on them; let your fierce anger overtake them.

²⁵May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

²⁶For they persecute those you wound and talk about the pain of those you hurt.

²⁷Charge them with crime upon crime; do not let them share in your salvation.

²⁸May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous.

²⁹But as for me, afflicted and in pain— may your salvation, God, protect me.

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

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

³²The poor will see and be glad— you who seek God, may your hearts live!

³³The LORD hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and all that move in them,

³⁵for God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it;

³⁶the children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.