Daily Wisdom Plan

¹I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

²I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

³When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence.

⁴For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

⁵You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.

⁷But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,

⁸and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.

⁹The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

¹⁰And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹Sing praises to the LORD, who sits enthroned in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!

¹²For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

¹⁶The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah

¹⁷The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!

²⁰Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

¹Why, O LORD, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

²In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

³For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.

⁴In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

⁵His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

⁶He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”

⁷His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

⁸He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

⁹he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

¹⁰The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might.

¹¹He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

¹²Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.

¹³Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?

¹⁴But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.

¹⁶The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.

¹⁷O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

¹⁸to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

¹In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain,

²for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;

³if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

⁴The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.

⁵The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

⁶Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.

¹Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

²Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

³May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

⁴those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

⁵“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

⁶The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

⁷You, O LORD, will keep them; you will guard us from this generation forever.

⁸On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.