Bible Reading Plan

¹ My soul, praise Yahweh!
Lord my God, You are very great;
You are clothed with majesty and splendor.^(a)
2 He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,^(b)
3 laying the beams of His palace
on the waters above,^(c)
making the clouds His chariot,^(d)
walking on the wings of the wind,^(e)
4 and making the winds His messengers,^[a]
flames of fire His servants.^(f)

⁵ He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be shaken.^(g)
6 You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.^(h)
7 At Your rebuke the waters fled;
at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away⁽ⁱ⁾—
⁸ mountains rose and valleys sank^[b]—
to the place You established for them.^(j)
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.^(k)

¹⁰ He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.^(l)
11 They supply water for every wild beast;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.^(m)
12 The birds of the sky live beside the springs;
they sing among the foliage.^(n)
13 He waters the mountains from His palace;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.^(o)

¹⁴ He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,^(p)
15 wine that makes man's heart glad—
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains man's heart.^(q)

¹⁶ The trees of the Lord flourish,^[c]
the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.^(r)
17 There the birds make their nests;
the stork makes its home in the pine trees.^(s)
18 The high mountains are for the wild goats;
the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.^(t)

¹⁹ He made the moon to mark the^[d] festivals;^[e]
the sun knows when to set.^(u)
20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals stir.^(v)
21 The young lions roar for their prey
and seek their food from God.^(w)
22 The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.^(x)
23 Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until evening.^(y)

²⁴ How countless are Your works, Lord !
In wisdom You have made them all;
the earth is full of Your creatures.^[f](z)
25 Here is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.^(aa)
26 There the ships move about,
and Leviathan, which You formed to play there.^(ab)

²⁷ All of them wait for You
to give them their food at the right time.^(ac)
28 When You give it to them,
they gather it;
when You open Your hand,
they are satisfied with good things.^(ad)
29 When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.^(ae)
30 When You send Your breath,^[g]
they are created,
and You renew the face of the earth.^(af)

³¹ May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
may the Lord rejoice in His works.^(ag)
32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles;
He touches the mountains,
and they pour out smoke.^(ah)
33 I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God while I live.^(ai)
34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him;
I will rejoice in the Lord .^(aj)
35 May sinners vanish from the earth
and wicked people be no more.^(ak)
My soul, praise Yahweh!
Hallelujah!

¹ Give thanks to Yahweh, call on His name;
proclaim His deeds among the peoples.^(a)
2 Sing to Him, sing praise to Him;
tell about all His wonderful works!^(b)
3 Honor His holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.^(c)
4 Search for the Lord and for His strength;
seek His face always.^(d)
5 Remember the wonderful works He has done,
His wonders, and the judgments He has pronounced,^[a](e)
6 you offspring of Abraham His servant,
Jacob's descendants—His chosen ones.^(f)

⁷ He is the Lord our God;
His judgments govern the whole earth.^(g)
8 He remembers His covenant forever,
the promise He ordained
for a thousand generations^(h)—
⁹ the covenant He made with Abraham,
swore^[b] to Isaac,^(i)
10 and confirmed to Jacob as a decree
and to Israel as an everlasting covenant:^(j)
11 "I will give the land of Canaan to you
as your inherited portion."^(k)

¹² When they were few in number,
very few indeed,
and temporary residents in Canaan,^(l)
13 wandering from nation to nation
and from one kingdom to another,^(m)
14 He allowed no one to oppress them;
He rebuked kings on their behalf:^(n)
15 "Do not touch My anointed ones,^(o)
or harm My prophets."^(p)

¹⁶ He called down famine against the land
and destroyed the entire food supply.^(q)
17 He had sent a man ahead of them—
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.^(r)
18 They hurt his feet with shackles;
his neck was put in an iron collar.^(s)
19 Until the time his prediction came true,
the word of the Lord tested him.^(t)
20 The king sent for him and released him;
the ruler of peoples set him free.^(u)
21 He made him master of his household,
ruler over all his possessions^(v)—
²² binding^[c] his officials at will
and instructing his elders.^(w)

²³ Then Israel went to Egypt;
Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.^[d](x)
24 The Lord ^[e] made His people very fruitful;
He made them more numerous than their foes,^(y)
25 whose hearts He turned to hate His people
and to deal deceptively with His servants.^(z)
26 He sent Moses His servant,
and Aaron, whom He had chosen.^(aa)
27 They performed His miraculous signs among them,
and wonders in the land of Ham.^[f](ab)
28 He sent darkness, and it became dark—
for did they not defy^[g] His commands?^(ac)
29 He turned their water into blood
and caused their fish to die.^(ad)
30 Their land was overrun with frogs,
even in their royal chambers.^(ae)
31 He spoke, and insects came^(af)—
gnats throughout their country.^(ag)
32 He gave them hail for rain,
and lightning throughout their land.^(ah)
33 He struck their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their territory.^(ai)
34 He spoke, and locusts came—
young locusts without number.
³⁵ They devoured all the vegetation in their land
and consumed the produce of their land.^(aj)
36 He struck all the firstborn in their land,
all their first progeny.^(ak)

³⁷ Then He brought Israel out with silver and gold,
and no one among His tribes stumbled.^(al)
38 Egypt was glad when they left,
for the dread of Israel^[h] had fallen on them.^(am)
39 He spread a cloud as a covering
and gave a fire to light up the night.^(an)
40 They asked, and He brought quail
and satisfied them with bread from heaven.^(ao)
41 He opened a rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed like a stream in the desert.^(ap)
42 For He remembered His holy promise
to Abraham His servant.^(aq)
43 He brought His people out with rejoicing,
His chosen ones with shouts of joy.^(ar)
44 He gave them the lands of the nations,
and they inherited
what other peoples had worked for.^(as)

⁴⁵ All this happened
so that they might keep His statutes
and obey His instructions.^(at)
Hallelujah!