Psalm 1

Book 1

1 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;

2 but his delight is in Yahweh’s law.

    On his law he meditates day and night.

3 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.

4 The wicked are not so,

    but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,

    but the way of the wicked shall perish.