Psalm 1

⁴I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

⁵I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

¹⁴Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

¹⁵Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.

²⁰He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

¹Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the Lord.

²Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.

¹⁷I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.

¹³Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

¹⁴But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

⁸This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.

⁹²If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

¹¹I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

²²For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

⁹⁷Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

⁹⁸Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.

¹⁵I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.

¹⁶I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

⁸He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

¹²Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”

¹⁴In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

⁶If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.

¹⁰Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.

²³The warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.

¹⁸Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

¹²His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

⁵May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the Lord drives them away.

¹³The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

³Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

⁵But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

⁵The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.

⁴⁶And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

¹⁸So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

⁴¹Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

³⁶So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

³²All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

¹⁹Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”

¹⁴I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,

⁹The Lord detests the way of the wicked, but He loves those who pursue righteousness.

⁷The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.

¹⁸The Lord knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will last forever.

¹⁹In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

²⁷My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.