Psalms 1 YLT
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).
1O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;
2But--in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:
3And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.
4Not so the wicked: But--as chaff that wind driveth away!
5Therefore the wicked rise not in judgment, Nor sinners in the company of the righteous,
6For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!
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