Daily Wisdom Plan

¹For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.

²You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

³You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

⁴Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.

⁵You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.

⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

⁷Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

⁸If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

⁹If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,

¹⁰even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

¹¹If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”

¹²even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

¹³For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

¹⁵My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

¹⁶Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

¹⁷How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

¹⁸Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.

¹⁹If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!

²⁰They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.

²¹Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?

²²I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.

²³Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

²⁴See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

¹For the director of music. A psalm of David. Rescue me, LORD, from evildoers; protect me from the violent,

²who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day.

³They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips.

⁴Keep me safe, LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from the violent, who devise ways to trip my feet.

⁵The arrogant have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path.

⁶I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, LORD, my cry for mercy.

⁷Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer, you shield my head in the day of battle.

⁸Do not grant the wicked their desires, LORD; do not let their plans succeed.

⁹Those who surround me proudly rear their heads; may the mischief of their lips engulf them.

¹⁰May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.

¹¹May slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down the violent.

¹²I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.

¹³Surely the righteous will praise your name, and the upright will live in your presence.

¹A psalm of David. I call to you, LORD, come quickly to me; hear me when I call to you.

²May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.

³Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.

⁴Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.

⁵Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.

⁶Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.

⁷They will say, “As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”

⁸But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death.

⁹Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me.

¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.