Book I: Psalms 1–41

¹How blessed are those

who reject the advice of the wicked,

don’t stand on the way of sinners

or sit where scoffers sit!

²Their delight

is in Adonai ’s Torah ;

on his Torah they meditate

day and night.

³They are like trees planted by streams —

they bear their fruit in season,

their leaves never wither,

everything they do succeeds.

⁴Not so the wicked,

who are like chaff driven by the wind.

⁵For this reason the wicked

won’t stand up to the judgment,

nor will sinners

at the gathering of the righteous.

⁶For Adonai watches over

the way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked

is doomed.