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So they grow strong,
    like a tree planted by a stream—
a tree that produces fruit when it should
    and has leaves that never fall.
Everything they do is successful.

But the wicked are not like that.
    They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
When the time for judgment comes, the wicked will be found guilty.
    Sinners have no place among those who do what is right.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 1:5 Or “The wicked will not be allowed to sit as judges nor sinners in the meeting of good people.”

That person is like a tree(A) planted by streams(B) of water,(C)
    which yields its fruit(D) in season
and whose leaf(E) does not wither—
    whatever they do prospers.(F)

Not so the wicked!
    They are like chaff(G)
    that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand(H) in the judgment,(I)
    nor sinners in the assembly(J) of the righteous.

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