Daily Wisdom Plan

¹LORD, God of vengeance — God of vengeance, shine!

²Rise up, Judge of the earth; repay the proud what they deserve.

³LORD, how long will the wicked — how long will the wicked celebrate?

⁴They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.

⁵LORD, they crush your people; they oppress your heritage.

⁶They kill the widow and the resident alien and murder the fatherless.

⁷They say, “The LORD doesn’t see it. The God of Jacob doesn’t pay attention.”

⁸Pay attention, you stupid people! Fools, when will you be wise?

⁹Can the one who shaped the ear not hear, the one who formed the eye not see?

¹⁰The one who instructs nations, the one who teaches mankind knowledge — does he not discipline?

¹¹The LORD knows the thoughts of mankind; they are futile.

¹²LORD, how happy is anyone you discipline and teach from your law

¹³to give him relief from troubled times until a pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴The LORD will not leave his people or abandon his heritage,

¹⁵for the administration of justice will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶Who stands up for me against the wicked? Who takes a stand for me against evildoers?

¹⁷If the LORD had not been my helper, I would soon rest in the silence of death.

¹⁸If I say, “My foot is slipping,” your faithful love will support me, LORD.

¹⁹When I am filled with cares, your comfort brings me joy.

²⁰Can a corrupt throne be your ally, a throne that makes evil laws?

²¹They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

²²But the LORD is my refuge; my God is the rock of my protection.

²³He will pay them back for their sins and destroy them for their evil. The LORD our God will destroy them.

¹Come, let us shout joyfully to the LORD, shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!

²Let us enter his presence with thanksgiving; let us shout triumphantly to him in song.

³For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.

⁴The depths of the earth are in his hand, and the mountain peaks are his.

⁵The sea is his; he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

⁶Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.

⁷For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, the sheep under his care. Today, if you hear his voice:

⁸Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the wilderness

⁹where your fathers tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

¹⁰For forty years I was disgusted with that generation; I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know my ways.”

¹¹So I swore in my anger, “They will not enter my rest.”

¹[1] Sing a new song to the LORD; let the whole earth sing to the LORD.

²Sing to the LORD, bless his name; proclaim his salvation from day to day.

³Declare his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among all peoples.

⁴For the LORD is great and is highly praised; he is feared above all gods.

⁵For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

⁶Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁷Ascribe to the LORD, you families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

⁸Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name; bring an offering and enter his courts.

⁹Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness; let the whole earth tremble before him.

¹⁰Say among the nations: “The LORD reigns. The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken. He judges the peoples fairly.”

¹¹Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and all that fills it resound.

¹²Let the fields and everything in them celebrate. Then all the trees of the forest will shout for joy

¹³before the LORD, for he is coming — for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with his faithfulness.