Daily Wisdom Plan

¹Hallelujah! Happy is the person who fears the LORD, taking great delight in his commands.

²His descendants will be powerful in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

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

⁴Light shines in the darkness for the upright. He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

⁵Good will come to the one who lends generously and conducts his business fairly.

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

⁷He will not fear bad news; his heart is confident, trusting in the LORD.

⁸His heart is assured; he will not fear. In the end he will look in triumph on his foes.

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

¹⁰The wicked one will see it and be angry; he will gnash his teeth in despair. The desire of the wicked leads to ruin.

¹Hallelujah! Give praise, servants of the LORD; praise the name of the LORD.

²Let the name of the LORD be blessed both now and forever.

³From the rising of the sun to its setting, let the name of the LORD be praised.

⁴The LORD is exalted above all the nations, his glory above the heavens.

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

⁶who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?

⁷He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the trash heap

⁸in order to seat them with nobles — with the nobles of his people.

⁹He gives the childless woman a household, making her the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!

¹When Israel came out of Egypt — the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign language  —

²Judah became his sanctuary, Israel, his dominion.

³The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back.

⁴The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs.

⁵Why was it, sea, that you fled? Jordan, that you turned back?

⁶Mountains, that you skipped like rams? Hills, like lambs?

⁷Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a spring.