Psalm 1 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

BOOK I ( Psalms 1–41 ) The Way to Happiness

¹ God blesses those people who refuse evil advice and won't follow sinners or join in sneering at God.

² Instead, they find happiness in the Teaching of the Lord, and they think about it day and night.

³ They are like trees growing beside a stream, trees that produce fruit in season and always have leaves. Those people succeed in everything they do.

⁴ That isn't true of those who are evil— they are like straw blown by the wind.

⁵ Sinners won't have an excuse on the day of judgment, and they won't have a place with the people of God.

⁶ The Lord protects everyone who follows him, but the wicked follow a road that leads to ruin.