Psalms, 1

1. How blessed is anyone who rejects the advice of the wicked and does not take a stand in the path that sinners tread, nor a seat in company with cynics,

1. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

2. but who delights in the law of Yahweh and murmurs his law day and night.

2. but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

3. Such a one is like a tree planted near streams; it bears fruit in season and its leaves never wither, and every project succeeds.

3. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

4. How different the wicked, how different! Just like chaff blown around by the wind

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

5. the wicked will not stand firm at the Judgement nor sinners in the gathering of the upright.

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

6. For Yahweh watches over the path of the upright, but the path of the wicked is doomed.

6. for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.