Daily Wisdom Plan

¹A psalm. For giving grateful praise. Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

²Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

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

⁴Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

⁵For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

¹Of David. A psalm. I will sing of your love and justice; to you, LORD, I will sing praise.

²I will be careful to lead a blameless life— when will you come to me? I will conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart.

³I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.

⁴The perverse of heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with what is evil.

⁵Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not tolerate.

⁶My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; the one whose walk is blameless will minister to me.

⁷No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.

⁸Every morning I will put to silence all the wicked in the land; I will cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.

¹A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, LORD; let my cry for help come to you.

²Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.

³For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.

⁴My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.

⁵In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones.

⁶I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

⁷I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.

⁸All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse.

⁹For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears

¹⁰because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside.

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

¹²But you, LORD, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations.

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

¹⁴For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.

¹⁵The nations will fear the name of the LORD, all the kings of the earth will revere your glory.

¹⁶For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.

¹⁷He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.

¹⁸Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the LORD:

¹⁹“The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth,

²⁰to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.”

²¹So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem

²²when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.

²³In the course of my life he broke my strength; he cut short my days.

²⁴So I said: “Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.

²⁵In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁶They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.

²⁷But you remain the same, and your years will never end.

²⁸The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you.”