Daily Wisdom Plan

¹Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His mercy is everlasting.

²Who can speak of the mighty deeds of the LORD, Or can proclaim all His praise?

³How blessed are those who maintain justice, Who practice righteousness at all times!

⁴Remember me, LORD, in Your favor toward Your people. Visit me with Your salvation,

⁵So that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the joy of Your nation, That I may boast with Your inheritance.

⁶We have sinned like our fathers, We have gone astray, we have behaved wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

⁸Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name, So that He might make His power known.

⁹So He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, And He led them through the mighty waters, as through the wilderness.

¹⁰So He saved them from the hand of one who hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹The waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.

¹²Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.

¹³They quickly forgot His works; They did not wait for His plan,

¹⁴But became lustfully greedy in the wilderness, And put God to the test in the desert.

¹⁵So He gave them their request, But sent a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶When they became envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,

¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the company of Abiram.

¹⁸And a fire blazed up in their company; The flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped a cast metal image.

²⁰So they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.

²¹They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt,

²²Wonders in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.

²³Therefore He said that He would destroy them, If Moses, His chosen one, had not stood in the gap before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they rejected the pleasant land; They did not believe His word,

²⁵But grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

²⁶Therefore He swore to them That He would have them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷And that He would bring down their descendants among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.

²⁸They also followed Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

²⁹So they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And a plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And so the plague was brought to a halt.

³¹And it was credited to him as righteousness, To all generations forever.

³²They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, So that it went badly for Moses on their account.

³³Because they were rebellious against His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples, As the LORD had commanded them,

³⁵But they got involved with the nations And learned their practices,

³⁶And served their idols, Which became a snare to them.

³⁷They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,

³⁸And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and their daughters Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was defiled with the blood.

³⁹So they became unclean in their practices, And were unfaithful in their deeds.

⁴⁰Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against His people, And He loathed His inheritance.

⁴¹So He handed them over to the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were subdued under their power.

⁴³Many times He would rescue them; They, however, were rebellious in their plan, And they sank down into their guilt.

⁴⁴Nevertheless He looked at their distress When He heard their cry;

⁴⁵And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented according to the greatness of His mercy.

⁴⁶He also made them objects of compassion In the presence of all their captors.

⁴⁷Save us, LORD our God, And gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Your holy name And glory in Your praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. And all the people shall say, “Amen.” Praise the LORD!

¹Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good, For His mercy is everlasting.

²The redeemed of the LORD shall say so, Those whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

³And gathered from the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.

⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region; They did not find a way to an inhabited city.

⁵They were hungry and thirsty; Their souls felt weak within them.

⁶Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; He saved them from their distresses.

⁷He also had them walk on a straight way, To go to an inhabited city.

⁸They shall give thanks to the LORD for His mercy, And for His wonders to the sons of mankind!

⁹For He has satisfied the thirsty soul, And He has filled the hungry soul with what is good.

¹⁰There were those who lived in darkness and in the shadow of death, Prisoners in misery and chains,

¹¹Because they had rebelled against the words of God And rejected the plan of the Most High.

¹²Therefore He humbled their heart with labor; They stumbled and there was no one to help.

¹³Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; He saved them from their distresses.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death And broke their bands apart.

¹⁵They shall give thanks to the LORD for His mercy, And for His wonders to the sons of mankind!

¹⁶For He has shattered gates of bronze And cut off bars of iron.

¹⁷Fools, because of their rebellious way, And because of their guilty deeds, were afflicted.

¹⁸Their souls loathed all kinds of food, And they came close to the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; He saved them from their distresses.

²⁰He sent His word and healed them, And saved them from their destruction.

²¹They shall give thanks to the LORD for His mercy, And for His wonders to the sons of mankind!

²²They shall also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, And tell of His works with joyful singing.

²³Those who go down to the sea in ships, Who do business on great waters;

²⁴They have seen the works of the LORD, And His wonders in the deep.

²⁵For He spoke and raised a stormy wind, Which lifted the waves of the sea.

²⁶They rose up to the heavens, they went down to the depths; Their soul melted away in their misery.

²⁷They reeled and staggered like a drunken person, And were at their wits’ end.

²⁸Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, And He brought them out of their distresses.

²⁹He caused the storm to be still, So that the waves of the sea were hushed.

³⁰Then they were glad because they were quiet, So He guided them to their desired harbor.

³¹They shall give thanks to the LORD for His mercy, And for His wonders to the sons of mankind!

³²They shall also exalt Him in the congregation of the people, And praise Him at the seat of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into a wilderness, And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

³⁴And a fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

³⁵He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry land into springs of water;

³⁶And He has the hungry live there, So that they may establish an inhabited city,

³⁷And sow fields and plant vineyards, And gather a fruitful harvest.

³⁸He also blesses them and they multiply greatly, And He does not let their cattle decrease.

³⁹When they become few and lowly Because of oppression, misery, and sorrow,

⁴⁰He pours contempt upon noblemen And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

⁴¹But He sets the needy securely on high, away from affliction, And makes his families like a flock.

⁴²The upright see it and are glad; But all injustice shuts its mouth.

⁴³Who is wise? He is to pay attention to these things, And consider the mercy of the LORD.

¹My heart is steadfast, God; I will sing, I will sing praises also with my soul.

²Awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn!

³I will give thanks to You, LORD, among the peoples, And I will sing praises to You among the nations.

⁴For Your mercy is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the skies.

⁵Be exalted above the heavens, God, And may Your glory be above all the earth.

⁶So that Your beloved may be rescued, Save with Your right hand, and answer me!

⁷God has spoken in His holiness: “I will triumph, I will divide up Shechem, And measure out the Valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim also is the helmet of My head; Judah is My scepter.

⁹Moab is My washbowl; I will throw My sandal over Edom; I will shout aloud over Philistia.”

¹⁰Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

¹¹God, have You Yourself not rejected us? And will You not go forth with our armies, God?

¹²Give us help against the enemy, For deliverance by man is worthless.

¹³Through God we will do valiantly, And it is He who will trample down our enemies.