Daily Wisdom Plan

¹Of David. [1] My soul, bless the LORD, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

²My soul, bless the LORD, and do not forget all his benefits.

³He forgives all your iniquity; he heals all your diseases.

⁴He redeems your life from the Pit; he crowns you with faithful love and compassion.

⁵He satisfies you with good things; your youth is renewed like the eagle.

⁶The LORD executes acts of righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

⁷He revealed his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel.

⁸The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love.

⁹He will not always accuse us or be angry forever.

¹⁰He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve or repaid us according to our iniquities.

¹¹For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his faithful love toward those who fear him.

¹²As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

¹³As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.

¹⁴For he knows what we are made of, remembering that we are dust.

¹⁵As for man, his days are like grass — he blooms like a flower of the field;

¹⁶when the wind passes over it, it vanishes, and its place is no longer known.

¹⁷But from eternity to eternity the LORD’s faithful love is toward those who fear him, and his righteousness toward the grandchildren

¹⁸of those who keep his covenant, who remember to observe his precepts.

¹⁹The LORD has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.

²⁰Bless the LORD, all his angels of great strength, who do his word, obedient to his command.

²¹Bless the LORD, all his armies, his servants who do his will.

²²Bless the LORD, all his works in all the places where he rules. My soul, bless the LORD!

¹My soul, bless the LORD! LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with majesty and splendor.

²He wraps himself in light as if it were a robe, spreading out the sky like a canopy,

³laying the beams of his palace on the waters above, making the clouds his chariot, walking on the wings of the wind,

⁴and making the winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.

⁵He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be shaken.

⁶You covered it with the deep as if it were a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

⁷At your rebuke the water fled; at the sound of your thunder they hurried away  —

⁸mountains rose and valleys sank  — to the place you established for them.

⁹You set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never cover the earth again.

¹⁰He causes the springs to gush into the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

¹¹They supply water for every wild beast; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²The birds of the sky live beside the springs; they make their voices heard among the foliage.

¹³He waters the mountains from his palace; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of your labor.

¹⁴He causes grass to grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, producing food from the earth,

¹⁵wine that makes human hearts glad — making his face shine with oil — and bread that sustains human hearts.

¹⁶The trees of the LORD flourish, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

¹⁷There the birds make their nests; storks make their homes in the pine trees.

¹⁸The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.

¹⁹He made the moon to mark the festivals; the sun knows when to set.

²⁰You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals stir.

²¹The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

²²The sun rises; they go back and lie down in their dens.

²³Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.

²⁴How countless are your works, LORD! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number — living things both large and small.

²⁶There the ships move about, and Leviathan, which you formed to play there.

²⁷All of them wait for you to give them their food at the right time.

²⁸When you give it to them, they gather it; when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

²⁹When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.

³⁰When you send your breath, they are created, and you renew the surface of the ground.

³¹May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works.

³²He looks at the earth, and it trembles; he touches the mountains, and they pour out smoke.

³³I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I live.

³⁴May my meditation be pleasing to him; I will rejoice in the LORD.

³⁵May sinners vanish from the earth and wicked people be no more. My soul, bless the LORD! Hallelujah!

¹Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; proclaim his deeds among the peoples.

²Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell about all his wondrous works!

³Honor his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

⁴Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.

⁵Remember the wondrous works he has done, his wonders, and the judgments he has pronounced,

⁶you offspring of Abraham his servant, Jacob’s descendants — his chosen ones.

⁷He is the LORD our God; his judgments govern the whole earth.

⁸He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he ordained for a thousand generations  —

⁹the covenant he made with Abraham, swore to Isaac,

¹⁰and confirmed to Jacob as a decree and to Israel as a permanent covenant:

¹¹“I will give the land of Canaan to you as your inherited portion.”

¹²When they were few in number, very few indeed, and resident aliens in Canaan,

¹³wandering from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another,

¹⁴he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their behalf:

¹⁵“Do not touch my anointed ones, or harm my prophets.”

¹⁶He called down famine against the land and destroyed the entire food supply.

¹⁷He had sent a man ahead of them — Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

¹⁸They hurt his feet with shackles; his neck was put in an iron collar.

¹⁹Until the time his prediction came true, the word of the LORD tested him.

²⁰The king sent for him and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.

²¹He made him master of his household, ruler over all his possessions  —

²²binding his officials at will and instructing his elders.

²³Then Israel went to Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.

²⁴The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them more numerous than their foes,

²⁵whose hearts he turned to hate his people and to deal deceptively with his servants.

²⁶He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

²⁷They performed his miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸He sent darkness, and it became dark — for did they not defy his commands?

²⁹He turned their water into blood and caused their fish to die.

³⁰Their land was overrun with frogs, even in their royal chambers.

³¹He spoke, and insects came  — gnats throughout their country.

³²He gave them hail for rain, and lightning throughout their land.

³³He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their territory.

³⁴He spoke, and locusts came — young locusts without number.

³⁵They devoured all the vegetation in their land and consumed the produce of their land.

³⁶He struck all the firstborn in their land, all their first progeny.

³⁷Then he brought Israel out with silver and gold, and no one among his tribes stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they left, for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.

³⁹He spread a cloud as a covering and gave a fire to light up the night.

⁴⁰They asked, and he brought quail and satisfied them with bread from heaven.

⁴¹He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a stream in the desert.

⁴²For he remembered his holy promise to Abraham his servant.

⁴³He brought his people out with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy.

⁴⁴He gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited what other peoples had worked for.

⁴⁵All this happened so that they might keep his statutes and obey his instructions. Hallelujah!