Psalm 1

Psalm 1

BOOK 1

The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted.

¹ How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the ^[a]path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
² But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
³ He will be like a tree firmly planted by ^[b]streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its ^[c]leaf does not wither;
And ^[d]in whatever he does, he prospers.
⁴ The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
⁶ For the LORD ^[e]knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked will perish.

 

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 1:1 Or way
2. Psalm 1:3 Or canals
3. Psalm 1:3 Or foliage
4. Psalm 1:3 Or all that he does prospers
5. Psalm 1:6 Or approves or has regard to