Daily Wisdom Plan

¹Let all that I am praise the LORD; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.

²Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.

³He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.

⁴He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies.

⁵He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagle’s!

⁶The LORD gives righteousness and justice to all who are treated unfairly.

⁷He revealed his character to Moses and his deeds to the people of Israel.

⁸The LORD is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.

⁹He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever.

¹⁰He does not punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.

¹¹For his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.

¹²He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.

¹³The LORD is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him.

¹⁴For he knows how weak we are; he remembers we are only dust.

¹⁵Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.

¹⁶The wind blows, and we are gone — as though we had never been here.

¹⁷But the love of the LORD remains forever with those who fear him. His salvation extends to the children’s children

¹⁸of those who are faithful to his covenant, of those who obey his commandments!

¹⁹The LORD has made the heavens his throne; from there he rules over everything.

²⁰Praise the LORD, you angels, you mighty ones who carry out his plans, listening for each of his commands.

²¹Yes, praise the LORD, you armies of angels who serve him and do his will!

²²Praise the LORD, everything he has created, everything in all his kingdom. Let all that I am praise the LORD.

¹Let all that I am praise the LORD. O LORD my God, how great you are! You are robed with honor and majesty.

²You are dressed in a robe of light. You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

³you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariot; you ride upon the wings of the wind.

⁴The winds are your messengers; flames of fire are your servants.

⁵You placed the world on its foundation so it would never be moved.

⁶You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.

⁷At your command, the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.

⁸Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed.

⁹Then you set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth.

¹⁰You make springs pour water into the ravines, so streams gush down from the mountains.

¹¹They provide water for all the animals, and the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹²The birds nest beside the streams and sing among the branches of the trees.

¹³You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home, and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.

¹⁴You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth —

¹⁵wine to make them glad, olive oil to soothe their skin, and bread to give them strength.

¹⁶The trees of the LORD are well cared for — the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

¹⁷There the birds make their nests, and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.

¹⁸High in the mountains live the wild goats, and the rocks form a refuge for the hyraxes.

¹⁹You made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to set.

²⁰You send the darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals prowl about.

²¹Then the young lions roar for their prey, stalking the food provided by God.

²²At dawn they slink back into their dens to rest.

²³Then people go off to their work, where they labor until evening.

²⁴O LORD, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small.

²⁶See the ships sailing along, and Leviathan, which you made to play in the sea.

²⁷They all depend on you to give them food as they need it.

²⁸When you supply it, they gather it. You open your hand to feed them, and they are richly satisfied.

²⁹But if you turn away from them, they panic. When you take away their breath, they die and turn again to dust.

³⁰When you give them your breath, life is created, and you renew the face of the earth.

³¹May the glory of the LORD continue forever! The LORD takes pleasure in all he has made!

³²The earth trembles at his glance; the mountains smoke at his touch.

³³I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will praise my God to my last breath!

³⁴May all my thoughts be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD.

³⁵Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth; let the wicked disappear forever. Let all that I am praise the LORD. Praise the LORD!

¹Give thanks to the LORD and proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done.

²Sing to him; yes, sing his praises. Tell everyone about his wonderful deeds.

³Exult in his holy name; rejoice, you who worship the LORD.

⁴Search for the LORD and for his strength; continually seek him.

⁵Remember the wonders he has performed, his miracles, and the rulings he has given,

⁶you children of his servant Abraham, you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷He is the LORD our God. His justice is seen throughout the land.

⁸He always stands by his covenant — the commitment he made to a thousand generations.

⁹This is the covenant he made with Abraham and the oath he swore to Isaac.

¹⁰He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, and to the people of Israel as a never-ending covenant:

¹¹“I will give you the land of Canaan as your special possession.”

¹²He said this when they were few in number, a tiny group of strangers in Canaan.

¹³They wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

¹⁴Yet he did not let anyone oppress them. He warned kings on their behalf:

¹⁵“Do not touch my chosen people, and do not hurt my prophets.”

¹⁶He called for a famine on the land of Canaan, cutting off its food supply.

¹⁷Then he sent someone to Egypt ahead of them — Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

¹⁸They bruised his feet with fetters and placed his neck in an iron collar.

¹⁹Until the time came to fulfill his dreams, the LORD tested Joseph’s character.

²⁰Then Pharaoh sent for him and set him free; the ruler of the nation opened his prison door.

²¹Joseph was put in charge of all the king’s household; he became ruler over all the king’s possessions.

²²He could instruct the king’s aides as he pleased and teach the king’s advisers.

²³Then Israel arrived in Egypt; Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

²⁴And the LORD multiplied the people of Israel until they became too mighty for their enemies.

²⁵Then he turned the Egyptians against the Israelites, and they plotted against the LORD’s servants.

²⁶But the LORD sent his servant Moses, along with Aaron, whom he had chosen.

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

²⁸The LORD blanketed Egypt in darkness, for they had defied his commands to let his people go.

²⁹He turned their water into blood, poisoning all the fish.

³⁰Then frogs overran the land and even invaded the king’s bedrooms.

³¹When the LORD spoke, flies descended on the Egyptians, and gnats swarmed across Egypt.

³²He sent them hail instead of rain, and lightning flashed over the land.

³³He ruined their grapevines and fig trees and shattered all the trees.

³⁴He spoke, and hordes of locusts came — young locusts beyond number.

³⁵They ate up everything green in the land, destroying all the crops in their fields.

³⁶Then he killed the oldest son in each Egyptian home, the pride and joy of each family.

³⁷The LORD brought his people out of Egypt, loaded with silver and gold; and not one among the tribes of Israel even stumbled.

³⁸Egypt was glad when they were gone, for they feared them greatly.

³⁹The LORD spread a cloud above them as a covering and gave them a great fire to light the darkness.

⁴⁰They asked for meat, and he sent them quail; he satisfied their hunger with manna — bread from heaven.

⁴¹He split open a rock, and water gushed out to form a river through the dry wasteland.

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

⁴³So he brought his people out of Egypt with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing.

⁴⁴He gave his people the lands of pagan nations, and they harvested crops that others had planted.

⁴⁵All this happened so they would follow his decrees and obey his instructions. Praise the LORD!