Psalm 1: A Firmly Planted Tree

1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,

Nor stand in the way of sinners,

Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

2 But his delight is in the law of Yahweh,

And in His law he meditates day and night.

3 And he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,

Which yields its fruit in its season

And its leaf does not wither;

And in whatever he does, he prospers.

4 The wicked are not so,

But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

5 Therefore the wicked will not rise 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 will perish.

Psalm 1