Daily Wisdom Plan

¹For the choir director. A psalm of David. [1] LORD, the king finds joy in your strength. How greatly he rejoices in your victory!

²You have given him his heart’s desire and have not denied the request of his lips. Selah

³For you meet him with rich blessings; you place a crown of pure gold on his head.

⁴He asked you for life, and you gave it to him — length of days forever and ever.

⁵His glory is great through your victory; you confer majesty and splendor on him.

⁶You give him blessings forever; you cheer him with joy in your presence.

⁷For the king relies on the LORD; through the faithful love of the Most High he is not shaken.

⁸Your hand will capture all your enemies; your right hand will seize those who hate you.

⁹You will make them burn like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD will engulf them in his wrath, and fire will devour them.

¹⁰You will wipe their progeny from the earth and their offspring from the human race.

¹¹Though they intend to harm you and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.

¹²Instead, you will put them to flight when you ready your bowstrings to shoot at them.

¹³Be exalted, LORD, in your strength; we will sing and praise your might.

¹For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A psalm of David. [1] My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far from my deliverance and from my words of groaning?

²My God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, by night, yet I have no rest.

³But you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

⁴Our fathers trusted in you; they trusted, and you rescued them.

⁵They cried to you and were set free; they trusted in you and were not disgraced.

⁶But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by people.

⁷Everyone who sees me mocks me; they sneer and shake their heads:

⁸“He relies on the LORD; let him save him; let the LORD rescue him, since he takes pleasure in him.”

⁹It was you who brought me out of the womb, making me secure at my mother’s breast.

¹⁰I was given over to you at birth; you have been my God from my mother’s womb.

¹¹Don’t be far from me, because distress is near and there’s no one to help.

¹²Many bulls surround me; strong ones of Bashan encircle me.

¹³They open their mouths against me — lions, mauling and roaring.

¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed; my heart is like wax, melting within me.

¹⁵My strength is dried up like baked clay; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You put me into the dust of death.

¹⁶For dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has closed in on me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

¹⁷I can count all my bones; people look and stare at me.

¹⁸They divided my garments among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing.

¹⁹But you, LORD, don’t be far away. My strength, come quickly to help me.

²⁰Rescue my life from the sword, my only life from the power of these dogs.

²¹Save me from the lion’s mouth, from the horns of wild oxen. You answered me!

²²I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters; I will praise you in the assembly.

²³You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! All you descendants of Israel, revere him!

²⁴For he has not despised or abhorred the torment of the oppressed. He did not hide his face from him but listened when he cried to him for help.

²⁵I will give praise in the great assembly because of you; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear you.

²⁶The humble will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise him. May your hearts live forever!

²⁷All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before you,

²⁸for kingship belongs to the LORD; he rules the nations.

²⁹All who prosper on earth will eat and bow down; all those who go down to the dust will kneel before him — even the one who cannot preserve his life.

³⁰Their descendants will serve him; the next generation will be told about the Lord.

³¹They will come and declare his righteousness; to a people yet to be born they will declare what he has done.

¹A psalm of David. [1] The LORD is my shepherd; I have what I need.

²He lets me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside quiet waters.

³He renews my life; he leads me along the right paths for his name’s sake.

⁴Even when I go through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff — they comfort me.

⁵You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

⁶Only goodness and faithful love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD as long as I live.

¹A psalm of David. [1] The earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the LORD;

²for he laid its foundation on the seas and established it on the rivers.

³Who may ascend the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place?

⁴The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not appealed to what is false, and who has not sworn deceitfully.

⁵He will receive blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

⁶Such is the generation of those who inquire of him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah

⁷Lift up your heads, you gates! Rise up, ancient doors! Then the King of glory will come in.

⁸Who is this King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle.

⁹Lift up your heads, you gates! Rise up, ancient doors! Then the King of glory will come in.

¹⁰Who is he, this King of glory? The LORD of Armies, he is the King of glory. Selah