Psalms 1

1 How blessed! [is] the person who - not he walks in [the] counsel of wicked [people] and in [the] way of sinners not he stands and in [the] seat of mockers not he sits.

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 That except [is] in [the] law of Yahweh delight his and in law his he meditates by day and night.

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

3 And he is like a tree planted at streams of water which fruit its - it gives at appropriate time its and leafage its not it withers and all that he does it succeeds.

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 Not [are] so the wicked [people] that except [they are] like the chaff which it drives about it wind.

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

5 There-fore - not they will stand wicked [people] in the judgment and sinners in [the] congregation of righteous [people].

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 [is] knowing Yahweh [the] way of righteous [people] and [the] way of wicked [people] it will perish.

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