Daily Wisdom Plan

¹Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

²It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

³Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.

⁴Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth.

⁵Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

¹Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!

²You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

³Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

⁴Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

⁵The LORD bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!

⁶May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel!

¹“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth” — let Israel now say —

²“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.”

⁴The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

⁵May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

⁶Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

⁷with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

⁸nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!”