Psalm 1

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

BOOK I

(Psalms 1–41)

Psalm 1

The Two Ways

¹Happy 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;
²but their delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and on his law they meditate day and night.
³They 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.

⁴The wicked are not so,
    but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
⁶for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked will perish.

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