Psalms 1

1 Blessid is the man, that yede not in the councel of wickid men; and stood not in the weie of synneris, and sat not in the chaier of pestilence.

Blessed 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.

2 But his wille is in the lawe of the Lord; and he schal bithenke in the lawe of hym dai and nyyt.

But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

3 And he schal be as a tree, which is plauntid bisidis the rennyngis of watris; which tre schal yyue his fruyt in his tyme. And his leef schal not falle doun; and alle thingis which euere he schal do schulen haue prosperite.

He 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.

4 Not so wickid men, not so; but thei ben as dust, which the wynd castith awei fro the face of erthe.

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

5 Therfor wickid men risen not ayen in doom; nethir synneres in the councel of iust men.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

6 For the Lord knowith the weie of iust men; and the weie of wickid men schal perische.

For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.