Psalms 1 WYC
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).
1Blessid is the man, that yede not in the councel of wickid men; and stood not in the weie of synneris, and sat not in the chaier of pestilence.
2But his wille is in the lawe of the Lord; and he schal bithenke in the lawe of hym dai and nyyt.
3And he schal be as a tree, which is plauntid bisidis the rennyngis of watris; which tre schal yyue his fruyt in his tyme. And his leef schal not falle doun; and alle thingis which euere he schal do schulen haue prosperite.
4Not so wickid men, not so; but thei ben as dust, which the wynd castith awei fro the face of erthe.
5Therfor wickid men risen not ayen in doom; nethir synneres in the councel of iust men.
6For the Lord knowith the weie of iust men; and the weie of wickid men schal perische.
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