Psalms 1

1 Happy are those who don't follow the advice of the wicked. They refuse to adopt the ways of sinful people, and they don't make fun of others.

Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

2 Instead they love to do what the law of the Lord says, and they think about it day and night.

But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

3 They're like trees growing by flowing rivers, producing fruit every season. Their leaves never wither, and they are successful in all they do.

He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

4 But it's not like that for the wicked! They are like chaff, blown away by the wind.

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

5 For this reason the wicked will not survive the judgment—sinners have no place among those who live right.

For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

6 For the Lord watches over those who follow the right way, but the way of the wicked leads to death.

Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.