Psalm 1

The Ways of the Righteous and the Wicked

1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of the wicked;

nor does he stand in the way of sinners;

nor does he sit in the assembly of mockers.

²Instead, in the law of Yahweh is his delight,

and on his law he meditates day and night.

³And so, he is like a tree planted by streams of water

that gives its fruit in its season;

its leaf also does not wither.

Therefore all that he does prospers.

⁴Not so the wicked.

Instead, they are like the chaff that the wind scatters.

⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

⁶for Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,^a

but the way of the wicked will perish.