Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

BOOK ONE

Psalms 1–41

The Way of the Righteous and the End of the Ungodly

Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Good and upright is the Lord; Therefore He teaches sinners in the way.

Do not gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.

May sinners be consumed from the earth, And the wicked be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!

My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent.

If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth, How much more the ungodly and the sinner.

Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Evil pursues sinners, But to the righteous, good shall be repaid.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be zealous for the fear of the Lord all the day;

For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

And I find more bitter than death The woman whose heart is snares and nets, Whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God shall escape from her, But the sinner shall be trapped by her.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.

All things come alike to all: One event happens to the righteous and the wicked; To the good, the clean, and the unclean; To him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; He who takes an oath as he who fears an oath.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; But one sinner destroys much good.”

The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together, And those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

Behold, the day of the Lord comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it.

The sinners in Zion are afraid; Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: “Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”

“No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; For the child shall die one hundred years old, But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’

Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples.

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”