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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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