Psalm

1 Happy+ is the man* that has not walked in the counsel of the wicked ones,+

And in the way of sinners has not stood,+

And in the seat of ridiculers has not sat.+

 2 But his delight is in the law of Jehovah,+

And in his law he reads in an undertone day and night.+

 3 And he will certainly become like a tree planted by streams of water,+

That gives its own fruit in its season+

And the foliage of which does not wither,+

And everything he does will succeed.+

 4 The wicked are not like that,

But are like the chaff that the wind* drives away.+

 5 That is why the wicked ones will not stand up in the judgment,+

Nor sinners in the assembly of righteous ones.+

 6 For Jehovah is taking knowledge of the way of righteous ones,+

But the very way of wicked ones will perish.+