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Psalm 1  New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

Book I

(Psalms 1–41)

Psalm 1

The Two Ways

1 Happy are those
    who do not follow the advice of the wicked
or take the path that sinners tread
    or sit in the seat of scoffers,(A)
2 but their delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and on his law they meditate day and night.(B)
3 They are like trees
    planted by streams of water,
which yield their fruit in its season,
    and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do, they prosper.(C)

4 The wicked are not so
    but are like chaff that the wind drives away.(D)
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment
    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous,(E)
6 for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked will perish.(F)

Cross references

  1. 1.1 : Job 21.16; Ps 17.4; 26.5; Prov 4.14; Jer 15.17
  2. 1.2 : Josh 1.8; Ps 119.35
  3. 1.3 : Gen 39.3; Ps 128.2; Jer 17.8; Ezek 47.12
  4. 1.4 : Job 21.18; Isa 17.13
  5. 1.5 : Ps 5.5; 9.7, 8, 16; 111.1; 149.1
  6. 1.6 : Ps 9.3–6; 37.18; 2 Tim 2.19
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