Psalm 1

Book One: Psalms 1–41

Psalm 1

¹Blessed ^ais the man

Who walks not in the counsel of the ¹ungodly,

Nor stands in the path of sinners,

^bNor sits in the seat of the scornful;

²But ^chis delight is in the law of the Lord,

^dAnd in His law he ²meditates day and night.

³He shall be like a tree

^ePlanted by the ³rivers of water,

That brings forth its fruit in its season,

Whose leaf also shall not wither;

And whatever he does shall ^fprosper.

⁴The ungodly are not so,

But are ^glike the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,

Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

⁶For ^hthe Lord knows the way of the righteous,

But the way of the ungodly shall perish.