Daily Wisdom Plan

¹Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!) Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who fears the LORD [with awe-inspired reverence and worships Him with obedience], Who delights greatly in His commandments.

²His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed.

³Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness endures forever.

⁴Light arises in the darkness for the upright; He is gracious and compassionate and righteous (upright—in right standing with God).

⁵It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; He conducts his affairs with justice.

⁶He will never be shaken; The righteous will be remembered forever.

⁷He will not fear bad news; His heart is steadfast, trusting [confidently relying on and believing] in the LORD.

⁸His heart is upheld, he will not fear While he looks [with satisfaction] on his adversaries.

⁹He has given freely to the poor; His righteousness endures forever; His horn will be exalted in honor.

¹⁰The wicked will see it and be angered, He will gnash his teeth and melt away [in despair and death]; The desire of the wicked will perish and come to nothing.

¹Praise the LORD! ( Hallelujah!) Praise, O servants of the LORD, Praise the name of the LORD.

²Blessed be the name of the LORD From this time forth and forever.

³From the rising of the sun to its setting The name of the LORD is to be praised [with awe-inspired reverence].

⁴The LORD is high above all nations, And His glory above the heavens.

⁵Who is like the LORD our God, Who is enthroned on high,

⁶Who humbles Himself to regard The heavens and the earth?

⁷He raises the poor out of the dust And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

⁸That He may seat them with princes, With the princes of His people.

⁹He makes the barren woman live in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)

¹When Israel came out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

²Judah became His sanctuary, And Israel His dominion.

³The [Red] Sea looked and fled; The Jordan turned back.

⁴The mountains leaped like rams, The [little] hills, like lambs.

⁵What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

⁶O mountains, that you leap like rams, O [little] hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob (Israel),

⁸Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of water.