Daily Wisdom Plan

¹I cry out to the LORD; I plead for the LORD’s mercy.

²I pour out my complaints before him and tell him all my troubles.

³When I am overwhelmed, you alone know the way I should turn. Wherever I go, my enemies have set traps for me.

⁴I look for someone to come and help me, but no one gives me a passing thought! No one will help me; no one cares a bit what happens to me.

⁵Then I pray to you, O LORD. I say, “You are my place of refuge. You are all I really want in life.

⁶Hear my cry, for I am very low. Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

⁷Bring me out of prison so I can thank you. The godly will crowd around me, for you are good to me.”

¹Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my plea! Answer me because you are faithful and righteous.

²Don’t put your servant on trial, for no one is innocent before you.

³My enemy has chased me. He has knocked me to the ground and forces me to live in darkness like those in the grave.

⁴I am losing all hope; I am paralyzed with fear.

⁵I remember the days of old. I ponder all your great works and think about what you have done.

⁶I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain. Interlude

⁷Come quickly, LORD, and answer me, for my depression deepens. Don’t turn away from me, or I will die.

⁸Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself to you.

⁹Rescue me from my enemies, LORD; I run to you to hide me.

¹⁰Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing.

¹¹For the glory of your name, O LORD, preserve my life. Because of your faithfulness, bring me out of this distress.

¹²In your unfailing love, silence all my enemies and destroy all my foes, for I am your servant.

¹Praise the LORD, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers skill for battle.

²He is my loving ally and my fortress, my tower of safety, my rescuer. He is my shield, and I take refuge in him. He makes the nations submit to me.

³O LORD, what are human beings that you should notice them, mere mortals that you should think about them?

⁴For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow.

⁵Open the heavens, LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains so they billow smoke.

⁶Hurl your lightning bolts and scatter your enemies! Shoot your arrows and confuse them!

⁷Reach down from heaven and rescue me; rescue me from deep waters, from the power of my enemies.

⁸Their mouths are full of lies; they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead.

⁹I will sing a new song to you, O God! I will sing your praises with a ten-stringed harp.

¹⁰For you grant victory to kings! You rescued your servant David from the fatal sword.

¹¹Save me! Rescue me from the power of my enemies. Their mouths are full of lies; they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead.

¹²May our sons flourish in their youth like well-nurtured plants. May our daughters be like graceful pillars, carved to beautify a palace.

¹³May our barns be filled with crops of every kind. May the flocks in our fields multiply by the thousands, even tens of thousands,

¹⁴and may our oxen be loaded down with produce. May there be no enemy breaking through our walls, no going into captivity, no cries of alarm in our town squares.

¹⁵Yes, joyful are those who live like this! Joyful indeed are those whose God is the LORD.