Psalms 1

BOOK 1

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

nor stand on the path of sinners,

nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

²but his delight is in the LORD’s^* law.

On his law he meditates day and night.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

that produces its fruit in its season,

whose leaf also does not wither.

Whatever he does shall prosper.

⁴The wicked are not so,

but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

⁶For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked shall perish.