Daily Wisdom Plan

¹Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!

²Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!

³Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

⁴Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!

⁵For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

¹I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music.

²I will ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;

³I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

⁴A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.

⁵Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

⁶I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.

⁷No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.

⁸Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.

¹Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to you!

²Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!

³For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

⁴My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.

⁵Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

⁶I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;

⁷I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.

⁸All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse.

⁹For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

¹⁰because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down.

¹¹My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

¹²But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.

¹³You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.

¹⁴For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust.

¹⁵Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.

¹⁶For the LORD builds up Zion; he appears in his glory;

¹⁷he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.

¹⁸Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD:

¹⁹that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,

²⁰to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die,

²¹that they may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise,

²²when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.

²³He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.

²⁴“O my God,” I say, “take me not away in the midst of my days — you whose years endure throughout all generations!”

²⁵Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁶They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,

²⁷but you are the same, and your years have no end.

²⁸The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you.