Blessed 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;
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Psalms 1
The two ways
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The Book of Psalms is a collection of 150 songs and prayers used in worship by Jews and Christians for thousands of years. Many psalms carry headings linking them with King David, and others with Asaph, the sons of Korah, Solomon or Moses; scholars generally see the book as gathered over several centuries. The psalms express praise, thanksgiving, lament, confession, trust and wisdom. Catholic and Orthodox Bibles that follow the ancient Greek numbering count most psalms one lower, so Psalm 23 may appear as Psalm 22.
This chapter in brief
The first psalm contrasts two ways of life. The person who delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on it day and night is like a tree planted by streams of water that bears fruit in its season, while the wicked are like chaff blown away by the wind. It serves as an introduction to the whole book of Psalms.
but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
He 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.
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
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