Daily Wisdom Plan

¹With my voice I cry out to the LORD; with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD.

²I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him.

³When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

⁴Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul.

⁵I cry to you, O LORD; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

⁶Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me!

⁷Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.

¹Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!

²Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

³For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

⁴Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.

⁵I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.

⁶I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

⁷Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

⁸Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

⁹Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD! I have fled to you for refuge.

¹⁰Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!

¹¹For your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble!

¹²And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.

¹Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

²he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

³O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

⁴Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

⁵Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke!

⁶Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!

⁷Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners,

⁸whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

⁹I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,

¹⁰who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.

¹¹Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

¹²May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

¹³may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;

¹⁴may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets!

¹⁵Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!