Psalms 1 WBT
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 walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers.
2But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in season; its leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he doeth shall prosper.
4The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
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