Daily Wisdom Plan

¹A psalm of Asaph. [1] God, the nations have invaded your inheritance, desecrated your holy temple, and turned Jerusalem into ruins.

²They gave the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky for food, the flesh of your faithful ones to the beasts of the earth.

³They poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

⁴We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

⁵How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy keep burning like fire?

⁶Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,

⁷for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

⁸Do not hold past iniquities against us; let your compassion come to us quickly, for we have become very weak.

⁹God of our salvation, help us  — for the glory of your name. Rescue us and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake.

¹⁰Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, let vengeance for the shed blood of your servants be known among the nations.

¹¹Let the groans of the prisoners reach you; according to your great power, preserve those condemned to die.

¹²Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors the reproach they have hurled at you, Lord.

¹³Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will thank you forever; we will declare your praise to generation after generation.

¹For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” A testimony of Asaph. A psalm. [1] Listen, Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; you who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine

²on Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Rally your power and come to save us.

³Restore us, God; make your face shine on us, so that we may be saved.

⁴LORD God of Armies, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?

⁵You fed them the bread of tears and gave them a full measure of tears to drink.

⁶You put us at odds with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

⁷Restore us, God of Armies; make your face shine on us, so that we may be saved.

⁸You dug up a vine from Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.

⁹You cleared a place for it; it took root and filled the land.

¹⁰The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

¹¹It sent out sprouts toward the Sea and shoots toward the River.

¹²Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

¹³Boars from the forest tear at it and creatures of the field feed on it.

¹⁴Return, God of Armies. Look down from heaven and see; take care of this vine,

¹⁵the root your right hand planted, the son that you made strong for yourself.

¹⁶It was cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

¹⁷Let your hand be with the man at your right hand, with the son of man you have made strong for yourself.

¹⁸Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.

¹⁹Restore us, LORD, God of Armies; make your face shine on us, so that we may be saved.

¹For the choir director: on the . Of Asaph. [1] Sing for joy to God our strength; shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.

²Lift up a song — play the tambourine, the melodious lyre, and the harp.

³Blow the horn on the day of our feasts during the new moon and during the full moon.

⁴For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

⁵He set it up as a decree for Joseph when he went throughout the land of Egypt. I heard an unfamiliar language:

⁶“I relieved his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from carrying the basket.

⁷You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the thundercloud. I tested you at the Waters of Meribah. Selah

⁸Listen, my people, and I will admonish you. Israel, if you would only listen to me!

⁹There must not be a strange god among you; you must not bow down to a foreign god.

¹⁰I am the LORD  your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel did not obey me.

¹²So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own plans.

¹³If only my people would listen to me and Israel would follow my ways,

¹⁴I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.”

¹⁵Those who hate the LORD would cower to him; their doom would last forever.

¹⁶But he would feed Israel with the best wheat. “I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.”