Psalms 1

BOOK I

The Two Ways

¹Happy are those

who do not follow the advice of the wicked,

or take the path that sinners tread,

or sit in the seat of scoffers;

²but their delight is in the law of the Lord ,

and on his law they meditate day and night.

³They are like trees

planted by streams of water,

which yield their fruit in its season,

and their leaves do not wither.

In all that they do, they prosper.

⁴The wicked are not so,

but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

⁶for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.