Psalm 1

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BOOK I

Psalms 1–41

The Two Paths

¹Blessed is the man

who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,

or set foot on the path of sinners,

or sit in the seat of mockers.

¹Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, and in the path of sinners does not stand, and in the seat of those mocking does not sit.

²But his delight is in the Law of the LORD,

and on His law he meditates day and night.

²But rather his delight is in the law of YHWH, and in His law he meditates day and night.

³He is like a tree planted by streams of water,

yielding its fruit in season,

whose leaf does not wither,

and who prospers in all he does.

³And he is like a tree planted by streams of water, which gives its fruit in its time; and its leaf shall not wither, and all that he does, he makes prosper.

⁴Not so the wicked!

For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

⁴Not so the wicked! But rather they are like the chaff, which the wind drives away.

⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁵Upon thus the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor the sinful ones in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶For the LORD guards the path of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.

⁶For YHWH knows the way of the righteous, and the way of the wicked shall perish.