Bible Reading Plan

¹  Lord , You showed favor to Your land;^(a)
You restored Jacob's prosperity.^[a](b)
2 You took away Your people's guilt;
You covered all their sin.^(c) Selah
³ You withdrew all Your fury;
You turned from Your burning anger.^(d)

⁴ Return to us, God of our salvation,
and abandon Your displeasure with us.^(e)
5 Will You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your anger for all generations?^(f)
6 Will You not revive us again
so that Your people may rejoice in You?^(g)
7 Show us Your faithful love, Lord ,
and give us Your salvation.^(h)

⁸ I will listen to what God will say;
surely the Lord will declare peace
to His people, His godly ones,
and not let them go back to foolish ways.^(i)
9 His salvation is very near those who fear Him,
so that glory may dwell in our land.^(j)

¹⁰ Faithful love and truth will join together;
righteousness and peace will embrace.^(k)
11 Truth will spring up from the earth,
and righteousness will look down from heaven.^(l)
12 Also, the Lord will provide what is good,
and our land will yield its crops.^(m)
13 Righteousness will go before Him
to prepare the way for His steps.⁽ⁿ⁾

¹ Listen, Lord , and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.^(a)
2 Protect my life, for I am faithful.^(b)
You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You.^(c)
3 Be gracious to me, Lord,
for I call to You all day long.^(d)
4 Bring joy to Your servant's life,
because I turn to You, Lord.^(e)

⁵ For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive,^(f)
rich in faithful love to all who call on You.^(g)
6  Lord , hear my prayer;
listen to my plea for mercy.^(h)
7 I call on You in the day of my distress,
for You will answer me.⁽ⁱ⁾

⁸ Lord, there is no one like You among the gods,
and there are no works like Yours.^(j)
9 All the nations You have made
will come and bow down before You, Lord,
and will honor Your name.^(k)
10 For You are great and perform wonders;
You alone are God.^(l)

¹¹ Teach me Your way, Yahweh,
and I will live by Your truth.
Give me an undivided mind to fear Your name.^(m)
12 I will praise You with all my heart, Lord my God,
and will honor Your name forever.^(n)
13 For Your faithful love for me is great,
and You deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.^(o)

¹⁴ God, arrogant people have attacked me;
a gang of ruthless men seeks my life.
They have no regard for You.^(p)
15 But You, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth.^(q)
16 Turn to me and be gracious to me.
Give Your strength to Your servant;
save the son of Your female servant.^(r)
17 Show me a sign of Your goodness;
my enemies will see and be put to shame
because You, Lord , have helped and comforted me.^(s)

¹ His foundation is on the holy mountains.^(a)
2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.^(b)
3 Glorious things are said about you,
city of God.^(c) Selah

⁴ "I will mention those who know Me:
Rahab, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—
each one was born there."^(d)
5 And it will be said of Zion,
"This one and that one were born in her."
The Most High Himself will establish her.^(e)
6 When He registers the peoples,
the Lord will record,
"This one was born there."^(f) Selah
⁷ Singers and dancers alike will say,
"My whole source of joy is^[a] in you."^(g)

¹  Lord , God of my salvation,
I cry out before You day and night.^(b)
2 May my prayer reach Your presence;
listen to my cry.^(c)

³ For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.^(d)
4 I am counted among those going down to the Pit.^(e)
I am like a man without strength,^(f)
5 abandoned^[a] among the dead.
I am like the slain lying in the grave,^(g)
whom You no longer remember,
and who are cut off from Your care.^[b](h)

⁶ You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,
in the darkest places, in the depths.^(i)
7 Your wrath weighs heavily on me;^(j)
You have overwhelmed me with all Your waves.^(k) Selah
⁸ You have distanced my friends from me;
You have made me repulsive to them.^(l)
I am shut in and cannot go out.
⁹ My eyes are worn out from crying.^(m)
Lord , I cry out to You all day long;⁽ⁿ⁾
I spread out my hands to You.^(o)

¹⁰ Do You work wonders for the dead?
Do departed spirits rise up to praise You?^(p) Selah
¹¹ Will Your faithful love be declared in the grave,
Your faithfulness in Abaddon?^(q)
12 Will Your wonders be known in the darkness
or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?^(r)

¹³ But I call to You for help, Lord ;
in the morning my prayer meets You.^(s)
14  Lord , why do You reject me?^(t)
Why do You hide Your face from me?^(u)
15 From my youth,
I have been afflicted and near death.
I suffer Your horrors; I am desperate.^(v)
16 Your wrath sweeps over me;
Your terrors destroy me.^(w)
17 They surround me like water all day long;
they close in on me from every side.^(x)
18 You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me;
darkness is my only friend.^[c](y)

¹ I will sing about the Lord 's faithful love forever;^(b)
I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations
with my mouth.^(c)
2 For I will declare,
"Faithful love is built up forever;
You establish Your faithfulness in the heavens."^(d)

³ The Lord said,
"I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David My servant:
⁴ ‘I will establish your offspring forever
and build up your throne for all generations.'"^(e) Selah

⁵  Lord , the heavens praise Your wonders^(f)—
Your faithfulness also—
in the assembly of the holy ones.^(g)
6 For who in the skies can compare with the Lord ?
Who among the heavenly beings^[a] is like the Lord ?^(h)
7 God is greatly feared in the council of the holy ones,
more awe-inspiring than^[b] all who surround Him.^(i)
8  Lord God of Hosts,
who is strong like You, Lord ?^(j)
Your faithfulness surrounds You.
⁹ You rule the raging sea;
when its waves surge, You still them.^(k)
10 You crushed Rahab like one who is slain;^(l)
You scattered Your enemies with Your powerful arm.^(m)
11 The heavens are Yours; the earth also is Yours.
The world and everything in it—You founded them.^(n)
12 North and south—You created them.^(o)
Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.^(p)
13 You have a mighty arm;
Your hand is powerful;
Your right hand is lifted high.^(q)
14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation
of Your throne;^(r)
faithful love and truth go before You.^(s)
15 Happy are the people who know the joyful shout;^(t)
Yahweh, they walk in the light of Your presence.^(u)
16 They rejoice in Your name all day long,
and they are exalted by Your righteousness.^(v)
17 For You are their magnificent strength;^(w)
by Your favor our horn is exalted.^(x)
18 Surely our shield^[c] belongs to the Lord ,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.^(y)

¹⁹ You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal ones
and said: "I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen^[d] from the people.^(z)
20 I have found David My servant;
I have anointed him with My sacred oil.^(aa)
21 My hand will always be with him,
and My arm will strengthen him.^(ab)
22 The enemy will not afflict^[e] him;
no wicked man will oppress him.^(ac)
23 I will crush his foes before him
and strike those who hate him.^(ad)
24 My faithfulness and love will be with him,
and through My name
his horn will be exalted.^(ae)
25 I will extend his power to the sea
and his right hand to the rivers.^(af)
26 He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father,^(ag)
my God, the rock of my salvation.'^(ah)
27 I will also make him My firstborn,
greatest of the kings of the earth.^(ai)
28 I will always preserve My faithful love for him,
and My covenant with him will endure.^(aj)
29 I will establish his line forever,
his throne as long as heaven lasts.^[f](ak)
30 If his sons forsake My instruction
and do not live by My ordinances,^(al)
31 if they dishonor My statutes
and do not keep My commands,^(am)
32 then I will call their rebellion
to account with the rod,
their sin with blows.^(an)
33 But I will not withdraw
My faithful love from him
or betray My faithfulness.^(ao)
34 I will not violate My covenant
or change what My lips have said.^(ap)
35 Once and for all
I have sworn an oath by My holiness;
I will not lie to David.^(aq)
36 His offspring will continue forever,
his throne like the sun before Me,^(ar)
37 like the moon, established forever,
a faithful witness in the sky."^(as) Selah

³⁸ But You have spurned and rejected him;
You have become enraged with Your anointed.^(at)
39 You have repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have completely dishonored his crown.^[g](au)
40 You have broken down all his walls;
You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.^(av)
41 All who pass by plunder him;^(aw)
he has become an object of ridicule
to his neighbors.^(ax)
42 You have lifted high the right hand of his foes;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.^(ay)
43 You have also turned back his sharp sword
and have not let him stand in battle.^(az)
44 You have made his splendor^[h] cease
and have overturned his throne.^(ba)
45 You have shortened the days of his youth;
You have covered him with shame.^(bb) Selah

⁴⁶ How long, Lord ? Will You hide Yourself forever?
Will Your anger keep burning like fire?^(bc)
47 Remember how short my life is.
Have You created everyone for nothing?^(bd)
48 What man can live and never see death?
Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?^(be) Selah
⁴⁹ Lord, where are the former acts of Your faithful love
that You swore to David in Your faithfulness?^(bf)
50 Remember, Lord, the ridicule against Your servants—
in my heart I carry abuse from all the peoples—
⁵¹ how Your enemies have ridiculed, Lord ,
how they have ridiculed every step of Your anointed.^(bg)

⁵² May the Lord be praised forever.
Amen and amen.^(bh)

¹ Lord, You have been our refuge^[a]
in every generation.^(a)
2 Before the mountains were born,
before You gave birth to the earth and the world,
from eternity to eternity, You are God.^(b)

³ You return mankind to the dust,
saying, "Return, descendants of Adam."^(c)
4 For in Your sight a thousand years
are like yesterday that passes by,
like a few hours of the night.^(d)
5 You end their lives;^[b] they sleep.^(e)
They are like grass that grows in the morning—
⁶ in the morning it sprouts and grows;
by evening it withers and dries up.^(f)

⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger;
we are terrified by Your wrath.^(g)
8 You have set our unjust ways before You,
our secret sins in the light of Your presence.^(h)
9 For all our days ebb away under Your wrath;
we end our years like a sigh.^(i)
10 Our lives last^[c] seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are^[d] struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.^(j)
11 Who understands the power of Your anger?
Your wrath matches the fear that is due You.^(k)
12 Teach us to number our days carefully
so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.^[e](l)

¹³  Lord —how long?
Turn and have compassion on Your servants.^(m)
14 Satisfy us in the morning with Your faithful love
so that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days.^(n)
15 Make us rejoice for as many days as You have humbled us,
for as many years as we have seen adversity.^(o)
16 Let Your work be seen by Your servants,
and Your splendor by their children.^(p)
17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us;
establish for us the work of our hands—
establish the work of our hands!^(q)

¹ The one who lives under the protection of the Most High
dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.^(a)

² I will say^[a] to the Lord , "My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust."^(b)

³ He Himself will deliver you from the hunter's net,^(c)
from the destructive plague.
⁴ He will cover you with His feathers;
you will take refuge under His wings.^(d)
His faithfulness will be a protective shield.^(e)
5 You will not fear the terror of the night,
the arrow that flies by day,^(f)
6 the plague that stalks in darkness,
or the pestilence that ravages at noon.^(g)
7 Though a thousand fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand,
the pestilence will not reach you.^(h)
8 You will only see it with your eyes
and witness the punishment of the wicked.⁽ⁱ⁾

⁹ Because you have made the Lord —my refuge,^(j)
the Most High—your dwelling place,^(k)
10 no harm will come to you;
no plague will come near your tent.^(l)
11 For He will give His angels orders concerning you,
to protect you in all your ways.^(m)
12 They will support you with their hands
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.^(n)
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the young lion and the serpent.^(o)

¹⁴ Because he is lovingly devoted to Me,
I will deliver him;
I will protect him because he knows My name.^(p)
15 When he calls out to Me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble.
I will rescue him and give him honor.^(q)
16 I will satisfy him with a long life^(r)
and show him My salvation.^(s)