Psalms 1 GNV
Summary: Psalm 1 opens the Psalter with a wisdom-styled contrast between two ways of life: the righteous, who delight in the law of the LORD and are "like a tree planted by streams of water" bearing fruit in season (v. 3), and the wicked, who are "like chaff that the wind drives away" (v. 4). It sets the interpretive key for the whole book, framing every psalm that follows as either lament or praise within this larger moral order. The chapter ends with a stark verdict: "the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish" (v. 6).
1Blessed is the man that doeth not walke in the counsell of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in ye seate of the scornefull:
2But his delite is in the Lawe of the Lord, and in his Lawe doeth he meditate day and night.
3For he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters, that will bring foorth her fruite in due season: whose leafe shall not fade: so whatsoeuer he shall doe, shall prosper.
4The wicked are not so, but as the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.
5Therefore the wicked shall not stande in the iudgement, nor sinners in the assemblie of the righteous.
6For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, and the way of the wicked shall perish.
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