Psalms 1

(Psalms 1–41)

The Two Ways

1 How happy is the one who does not

walk in the advice of the wicked

or stand in the pathway with sinners

or sit in the company of mockers!  * 1:1 Ps 26:4–5; Pr 4:14–15

2 Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,

and he meditates on it day and night.  * 1:2 Jos 1:8; Ps 40:8; 119:14–16

3 He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams  * 1:3 Or beside irrigation channels

that bears its fruit in its season,  * 1:3 Rv 22:2

and its leaf does not wither.  * 1:3 Ps 92:12–14; Jr 17:8

Whatever he does prospers.  * 1:3 Dt 5:33

4 The wicked are not like this;

instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.  * 1:4 Jb 21:18; Ps 35:5; Hs 13:3

5 Therefore the wicked will not stand up in the judgment,  * 1:5 Ps 5:5; 9:16; 76:7; Jr 25:31

nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,  * 1:6 Jb 34:21; Ps 37:18; Nah 1:7; Jn 10:14; 2Tm 2:19

but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.  * 1:6 Pr 21:12; Jn 3:16