Psalm 1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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,

² but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night.

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.

⁴ The wicked are not so but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous,

⁶ for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.