Daily Wisdom Plan

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

²Rise up, Judge of the earth, Pay back retribution to the proud.

³How long, LORD, shall the wicked— How long shall the wicked triumph?

⁴They pour out words, they speak arrogantly; All who do injustice boast.

⁵They crush Your people, LORD, And afflict Your inheritance.

⁶They kill the widow and the stranger And murder the orphans.

⁷They have said, “The LORD does not see, Nor does the God of Jacob perceive.”

⁸Pay attention, you stupid ones among the people; And when will you understand, foolish ones?

⁹He who planted the ear, does He not hear? Or He who formed the eye, does He not see?

¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, will He not rebuke, He who teaches mankind knowledge?

¹¹The LORD knows human thoughts, That they are mere breath.

¹²Blessed is the man whom You discipline, LORD, And whom You teach from Your Law,

¹³So that You may grant him relief from the days of adversity, Until a pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For the LORD will not abandon His people, Nor will He abandon His inheritance.

¹⁵For judgment will again be righteous, And all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶Who will stand up for me against evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against those who do injustice?

¹⁷If the LORD had not been my help, My soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.

¹⁸If I should say, “My foot has slipped,” Your faithfulness, LORD, will support me.

¹⁹When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your comfort delights my soul.

²⁰Can a throne of destruction be allied with You, One which devises mischief by decree?

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

²²But the LORD has been my refuge, And my God the rock of my refuge.

²³He has brought back their injustice upon them, And He will destroy them in their evil; The LORD our God will destroy them.

¹Come, let’s sing for joy to the LORD, Let’s shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

²Let’s come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving, Let’s shout joyfully to Him in songs with instruments.

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

⁴In whose hand are the depths of the earth, The peaks of the mountains are also His.

⁵The sea is His, for it was He who made it, And His hands formed the dry land.

⁶Come, let’s worship and bow down, Let’s kneel before the LORD our Maker.

⁷For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice,

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

⁹“When your fathers put Me to the test, They tested Me, though they had seen My work.

¹⁰For forty years I was disgusted with that generation, And said they are a people who err in their heart, And they do not know My ways.

¹¹Therefore I swore in My anger, They certainly shall not enter My rest.”

¹Sing to the LORD a new song; Sing to the LORD, all the earth.

²Sing to the LORD, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.

³Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.

⁴For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be 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 come into His courtyards.

⁹Worship the LORD in holy attire; Tremble before Him, all the earth.

¹⁰Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved; He will judge the peoples fairly.”

¹¹May the heavens be joyful, and may the earth rejoice; May the sea roar, and all it contains;

¹²May the field be jubilant, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

¹³Before the LORD, for He is coming, For He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, And the peoples in His faithfulness.