Psalms 1 WEB
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 who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
2but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
4The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
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