Meditations on the Excellencies of the Word of God

א ALEPH

119 Blessed are the [a]undefiled in the way,
(A)Who walk in the law of the Lord!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 119:1 blameless

20 (A)that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; (B)and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

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28 But He said, (A)“More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

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25 But (A)he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, (B)this one will be blessed in what he does.

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Blessings of Those Who Fear the Lord

A Song of Ascents.

128 Blessed (A)is every one who fears the Lord,
Who walks in His ways.

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17 (A)If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

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And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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Trained by Saving Grace

11 For (A)the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

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BOOK ONE

Psalms 1–41

The Way of the Righteous and the End of the Ungodly

Blessed (A)is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the [a]ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
(B)Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But (C)his delight is in the law of the Lord,
(D)And in His law he [b]meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree
(E)Planted by the [c]rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall (F)prosper.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 1:1 wicked
  2. Psalm 1:2 ponders by talking to himself
  3. Psalm 1:3 channels

Plea for Purity

Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus (A)that you should abound more and more, (B)just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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20 Those who are of a perverse heart are an abomination to the Lord,
But the blameless in their ways are His delight.

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The Blessed State of the Righteous

112 Praise[a] the Lord!

Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
Who (A)delights greatly in His commandments.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 112:1 Heb. Hallelujah

16 (A)This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.

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