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 do not follow the counsel of the wicked, not halting in ways frequented by sinners, nor taking a seat in a gathering of scoffers.

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

But the law of the Lord is their joy, they study 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 are like trees planted by runlets of water, yielding fruit in due season, leaves never fading. In all that they do, they prosper.

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

Not so fare the wicked, not so; like chaff are they, blown by the wind.

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

So the wicked will not stand firm in the judgment, nor sinners appear, when the righteous are gathered.

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

For the way of the righteous is dear to the Lord, but the way of the wicked will end in ruin.