Daily Wisdom Plan

¹O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.

²You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.

³You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.

⁴You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.

⁵You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.

⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!

⁷I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!

⁸If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.

⁹If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,

¹⁰even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.

¹¹I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night —

¹²but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.

¹³You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous — how well I know it.

¹⁵You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

¹⁶You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.

¹⁷How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!

¹⁸I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!

¹⁹O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!

²⁰They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name.

²¹O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?

²²Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.

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

²⁴Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

¹O LORD, rescue me from evil people. Protect me from those who are violent,

²those who plot evil in their hearts and stir up trouble all day long.

³Their tongues sting like a snake; the venom of a viper drips from their lips. Interlude

⁴O LORD, keep me out of the hands of the wicked. Protect me from those who are violent, for they are plotting against me.

⁵The proud have set a trap to catch me; they have stretched out a net; they have placed traps all along the way. Interlude

⁶I said to the LORD, “You are my God!” Listen, O LORD, to my cries for mercy!

⁷O Sovereign LORD, the strong one who rescued me, you protected me on the day of battle.

⁸LORD, do not let evil people have their way. Do not let their evil schemes succeed, or they will become proud. Interlude

⁹Let my enemies be destroyed by the very evil they have planned for me.

¹⁰Let burning coals fall down on their heads. Let them be thrown into the fire or into watery pits from which they can’t escape.

¹¹Don’t let liars prosper here in our land. Cause great disasters to fall on the violent.

¹²But I know the LORD will help those they persecute; he will give justice to the poor.

¹³Surely righteous people are praising your name; the godly will live in your presence.

¹O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!

²Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

³Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.

⁴Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.

⁵Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. Don’t let me refuse it. But I pray constantly against the wicked and their deeds.

⁶When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.

⁷Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.

⁸I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD. You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.

⁹Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.

¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.