Daily Wisdom Plan

¹LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.

²Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry!

³For my soul has had enough troubles, And my life has approached Sheol.

⁴I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,

⁵Abandoned among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You no longer remember, And they are cut off from Your hand.

⁶You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths.

⁷Your wrath has rested upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah

⁸You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an object of loathing to them; I am shut up and cannot go out.

⁹My eye grows dim from misery; I have called upon You every day, LORD; I have spread out my hands to You.

¹⁰Will You perform wonders for the dead? Or will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah

¹¹Will Your graciousness be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

¹²Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³But I, LORD, have cried out to You for help, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.

¹⁴LORD, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

¹⁵I was miserable and about to die from my youth on; I suffer Your terrors; I grow weary.

¹⁶Your burning anger has passed over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

¹⁷They have surrounded me like water all day long; They have encircled me altogether.

¹⁸You have removed lover and friend far from me; My acquaintances are in a hiding place.

¹I will sing of the graciousness of the LORD forever; To all generations I will make Your faithfulness known with my mouth.

²For I have said, “Graciousness will be built up forever; In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness.”

³“I have made a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to My servant David,

⁴I will establish your descendants forever And build up your throne to all generations.” Selah

⁵The heavens will praise Your wonders, LORD; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

⁶For who in the skies is comparable to the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like the LORD,

⁷A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones, And awesome above all those who are around Him?

⁸LORD God of armies, who is like You, mighty LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

⁹You rule the surging of the sea; When its waves rise, You calm them.

¹⁰You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

¹¹The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have established them.

¹²The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

¹³You have a strong arm; Your hand is mighty, Your right hand is exalted.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before You.

¹⁵Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! LORD, they walk in the light of Your face.

¹⁶In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted.

¹⁷For You are the glory of their strength, And by Your favor our horn is exalted.

¹⁸For our shield belongs to the LORD, And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ones, And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

²⁰I have found My servant David; With My holy oil I have anointed him,

²¹With whom My hand will be established; My arm also will strengthen him.

²²The enemy will not deceive him, Nor will the son of wickedness afflict him.

²³But I will crush his adversaries before him, And strike those who hate him.

²⁴My faithfulness and My favor will be with him, And in My name his horn will be exalted.

²⁵I will also place his hand on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.

²⁶He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’

²⁷I will also make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸I will maintain My favor for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.

²⁹So I will establish his descendants forever, And his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰“If his sons abandon My Law And do not walk in My judgments,

³¹If they violate My statutes And do not keep My commandments,

³²Then I will punish their wrongdoing with the rod, And their guilt with afflictions.

³³But I will not withhold My favor from him, Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.

³⁴I will not violate My covenant, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

³⁵Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David.

³⁶His descendants shall endure forever, And his throne as the sun before Me.

³⁷It shall be established forever like the moon, And a witness in the sky is faithful.” Selah

³⁸But You have rejected and refused, You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

³⁹You have repudiated the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust.

⁴⁰You have broken down all his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

⁴¹All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.

⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

⁴³You also turn back the edge of his sword, And have not made him stand in battle.

⁴⁴You have put an end to his splendor And cast his throne to the ground.

⁴⁵You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

⁴⁶How long, LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷Remember what my lifespan is; For what futility You have created all the sons of mankind!

⁴⁸What man can live and not see death? Can he save his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

⁴⁹Where are Your former acts of favor, Lord, Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the taunt against Your servants; How I carry in my heart the taunts of all the many peoples,

⁵¹With which Your enemies have taunted, LORD, With which they have taunted the footsteps of Your anointed.

⁵²Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.

¹Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.

²Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

³You turn mortals back into dust And say, “Return, you sons of mankind.”

⁴For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it passes by, Or like a watch in the night.

⁵You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they are like grass that sprouts anew.

⁶In the morning it flourishes and sprouts anew; Toward evening it wilts and withers away.

⁷For we have been consumed by Your anger, And we have been terrified by Your wrath.

⁸You have placed our guilty deeds before You, Our hidden sins in the light of Your presence.

⁹For all our days have dwindled away in Your fury; We have finished our years like a sigh.

¹⁰As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is only trouble and tragedy; For it quickly passes, and we disappear.

¹¹Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?

¹²So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

¹³Do return, LORD; how long will it be? And be sorry for Your servants.

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with Your graciousness, That we may sing for joy and rejoice all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us, And the years we have seen evil.

¹⁶Let Your work appear to Your servants And Your majesty to their children.

¹⁷May the kindness of the Lord our God be upon us; And confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our hands.