Daily Wisdom Plan

¹Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

²Who can utter the mighty deeds of the LORD, or declare all his praise?

³Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!

⁴Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people; help me when you save them,

⁵that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

⁶Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.

⁷Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

⁸Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.

⁹He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry, and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

¹⁰So he saved them from the hand of the foe and redeemed them from the power of the enemy.

¹¹And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left.

¹²Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.

¹³But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

¹⁴But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;

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

¹⁶When men in the camp were jealous of Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,

¹⁷the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

¹⁸Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a metal image.

²⁰They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

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

²²wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

²³Therefore he said he would destroy them — had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.

²⁵They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the LORD.

²⁶Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness,

²⁷and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands.

²⁸Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;

²⁹they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stayed.

³¹And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.

³²They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account,

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

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

³⁵but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.

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

³⁷They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;

³⁸they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.

⁴⁰Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage;

⁴¹he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴²Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.

⁴³Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity.

⁴⁴Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.

⁴⁵For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

⁴⁶He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.

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

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

¹Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

²Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble

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

⁴Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;

⁵hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.

⁶Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

⁷He led them by a straight way till they reached a city to dwell in.

⁸Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!

⁹For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.

¹⁰Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

¹¹for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.

¹²So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.

¹³Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.

¹⁵Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!

¹⁶For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.

¹⁷Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;

¹⁸they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

²⁰He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.

²¹Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!

²²And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!

²³Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters;

²⁴they saw the deeds of the LORD, his wondrous works in the deep.

²⁵For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.

²⁶They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight;

²⁷they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end.

²⁸Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

²⁹He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

³⁰Then they were glad that the waters were quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven.

³¹Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!

³²Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground,

³⁴a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.

³⁵He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.

³⁶And there he lets the hungry dwell, and they establish a city to live in;

³⁷they sow fields and plant vineyards and get a fruitful yield.

³⁸By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their livestock diminish.

³⁹When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow,

⁴⁰he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

⁴¹but he raises up the needy out of affliction and makes their families like flocks.

⁴²The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth.

⁴³Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the LORD.

¹My heart is steadfast, O God! I will sing and make melody with all my being!

²Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!

³I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.

⁴For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!

⁶That your beloved ones may be delivered, give salvation by your right hand and answer me!

⁷God has promised in his holiness: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Valley of Succoth.

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

⁹Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

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

¹¹Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go out, O God, with our armies.

¹²Oh grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man!

¹³With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.