Daily Wisdom Plan

¹For the director of music. For pipes. A psalm of David. Listen to my words, LORD, consider my lament.

²Hear my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray.

³In the morning, LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.

⁴For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome.

⁵The arrogant cannot stand in your presence. You hate all who do wrong;

⁶you destroy those who tell lies. The bloodthirsty and deceitful you, LORD, detest.

⁷But I, by your great love, can come into your house; in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple.

⁸Lead me, LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies— make your way straight before me.

⁹Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with malice. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they tell lies.

¹⁰Declare them guilty, O God! Let their intrigues be their downfall. Banish them for their many sins, for they have rebelled against you.

¹¹But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you.

¹²Surely, LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.

¹For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. A psalm of David. LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

²Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint; heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.

³My soul is in deep anguish. How long, LORD, how long?

⁴Turn, LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.

⁵Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?

⁶I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

⁷My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.

⁸Away from me, all you who do evil, for the LORD has heard my weeping.

⁹The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.

¹⁰All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame and anguish; they will turn back and suddenly be put to shame.

¹A shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite. LORD my God, I take refuge in you; save and deliver me from all who pursue me,

²or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

³LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands—

⁴if I have repaid my ally with evil or without cause have robbed my foe—

⁵then let my enemy pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust.

⁶Arise, LORD, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.

⁷Let the assembled peoples gather around you, while you sit enthroned over them on high.

⁸Let the LORD judge the peoples. Vindicate me, LORD, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High.

⁹Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure— you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.

¹⁰My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.

¹¹God is a righteous judge, a God who displays his wrath every day.

¹²If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.

¹³He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows.

¹⁴Whoever is pregnant with evil conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment.

¹⁵Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit they have made.

¹⁶The trouble they cause recoils on them; their violence comes down on their own heads.

¹⁷I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the LORD Most High.

¹For the director of music. According to gittith. A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.

²Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

³When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

⁴what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?

⁵You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.

⁶You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:

⁷all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,

⁸the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

⁹LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!