Psalms · 6 verses
Psalms 1
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A man declines the counsel, path, and seat of the wicked, and becomes a tree by streams of water; the wicked, meanwhile, are chaff with somewhere else to be.
The man and the treevv. 1–3
The psalm begins with a man taking care over where he will not go: not into the counsel of the wicked, not along the sinners’ path, and not into the mockers’ seat. His delight is in the Law of the LORD, which he meditates on day and night. The reward is a splendidly rooted comparison: a tree planted by water, fruit arriving in season, leaves refusing to wither, and prosperity attending his work.
Chaff and the watched wayvv. 4–6
“Not so the wicked!” The contrast arrives with admirable briskness: no tree, no streams, only chaff driven off by the wind. The wicked will not stand in the judgment, and sinners will not remain in the assembly of the righteous. At the end, two ways face opposite fates: the LORD guards the path of the righteous, while the way of the wicked perishes.
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Ps 1:1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
Ps 1:2But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
Ps 1:3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
Ps 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Ps 1:5Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
Ps 1:6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
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Where this is echoed
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- 1Psalms 26:4–5I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
- 1Proverbs 4:14–15Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.
- 3Jeremiah 17:8He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
- 1Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
- 1Psalms 119:1–2Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
- 1Jeremiah 15:17I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
- 1Matthew 7:13–14Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- 1Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
- 3Ezekiel 47:12Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
- 2Joshua 1:8This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
- 3Psalms 92:14In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
- 2Psalms 119:92If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
- 1Deuteronomy 28:2–68And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
- 2Psalms 119:11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
- 2Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
- 1Leviticus 26:27–28But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
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