Daily Wisdom Plan

¹Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever.

²Who can declare the LORD’s mighty acts or proclaim all the praise due him?

³How happy are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

⁴Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people. Come to me with your salvation

⁵so that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice in the joy of your nation, and boast about your heritage.

⁶Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.

⁷Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp the significance of your wondrous works or remember your many acts of faithful love; instead, they rebelled by the sea — the Red Sea.

⁸Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, to make his power known.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.

¹⁰He saved them from the power of the adversary; he redeemed them from the power of the enemy.

¹¹Water covered their foes; not one of them remained.

¹²Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.

¹³They soon forgot his works and would not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴They were seized with craving in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

¹⁵He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.

¹⁶In the camp they were envious of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD’s holy one.

¹⁷The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

¹⁸Fire blazed throughout their assembly; flames consumed the wicked.

¹⁹At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped the cast metal image.

²⁰They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

²¹They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham, awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea.

²³So he said he would have destroyed them — if Moses his chosen one had not stood before him in the breach to turn his wrath away from destroying them.

²⁴They despised the pleasant land and did not believe his promise.

²⁵They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the LORD.

²⁶So he raised his hand against them with an oath that he would make them fall in the desert

²⁷and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them throughout the lands.

²⁸They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

²⁹They angered the LORD with their deeds, and a plague broke out against them.

³⁰But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stopped.

³¹It was credited to him as righteousness throughout all generations to come.

³²They angered the LORD at the Waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them;

³³for they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them

³⁵but mingled with the nations and adopted their ways.

³⁶They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

³⁷They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

³⁸They shed innocent blood — the blood of their sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; so the land became polluted with blood.

³⁹They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

⁴⁰Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance.

⁴¹He handed them over to the nations; those who hated them ruled over them.

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

⁴³He rescued them many times, but they continued to rebel deliberately and were beaten down by their iniquity.

⁴⁴When he heard their cry, he took note of their distress,

⁴⁵remembered his covenant with them, and relented according to the abundance of his faithful love.

⁴⁶He caused them to be pitied before all their captors.

⁴⁷Save us, LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to your holy name and rejoice in your praise.

⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!

¹Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever.

²Let the redeemed of the LORD proclaim that he has redeemed them from the power of the foe

³and has gathered them from the lands — from the east and the west, from the north and the south.

⁴Some wandered in the desolate wilderness, finding no way to a city where they could live.

⁵They were hungry and thirsty; their spirits failed within them.

⁶Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he rescued them from their distress.

⁷He led them by the right path to go to a city where they could live.

⁸Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

⁹For he has satisfied the thirsty and filled the hungry with good things.

¹⁰Others sat in darkness and gloom  — prisoners in cruel chains  —

¹¹because they rebelled against God’s commands and despised the counsel of the Most High.

¹²He broke their spirits with hard 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 distress.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and gloom and broke their chains apart.

¹⁵Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

¹⁶For he has broken down the bronze gates and cut through the iron bars.

¹⁷Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their iniquities.

¹⁸They loathed all food and came near the gates of death.

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

²⁰He sent his word and healed them; he rescued them from the Pit.

²¹Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

²²Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and announce his works with shouts of joy.

²³Others went to sea in ships, conducting trade on the vast water.

²⁴They saw the LORD’s works, his wondrous works in the deep.

²⁵He spoke and raised a stormy wind that stirred up the waves of the sea.

²⁶Rising up to the sky, sinking down to the depths, their courage melting away in anguish,

²⁷they reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and all their skill was useless.

²⁸Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress.

²⁹He stilled the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

³⁰They rejoiced when the waves grew quiet. Then he guided them to the harbor they longed for.

³¹Let them give thanks to the LORD for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all humanity.

³²Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the council of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into desert, springs into thirsty ground,

³⁴and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

³⁵He turns a desert into a pool, dry land into springs.

³⁶He causes the hungry to settle there, and they establish a city where they can live.

³⁷They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.

³⁸He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; he does not let their livestock decrease.

³⁹When they are diminished and are humbled by cruel oppression and sorrow,

⁴⁰he pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

⁴¹But he lifts the needy out of their suffering and makes their families multiply like flocks.

⁴²The upright see it and rejoice, and all injustice shuts its mouth.

⁴³Let whoever is wise pay attention to these things and consider the LORD’s acts of faithful love.

¹A song. A psalm of David. [1] My heart is confident, God; I will sing; I will sing praises with the whole of my being.

²Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.

³I will praise you, LORD, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.

⁴For your faithful love is higher than the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

⁵God, be exalted above the heavens, and let your glory be over the whole earth.

⁶Save with your right hand and answer me so that those you love may be rescued.

⁷God has spoken in his sanctuary: “I will celebrate! I will divide up Shechem. I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.

⁹Moab is my washbasin; I throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

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

¹¹God, haven’t you rejected us? God, you do not march out with our armies.

¹²Give us aid against the foe, for human help is worthless.

¹³With God we will perform valiantly; he will trample our foes.