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Psalms 1
The opening poem of the Psalter sets up its whole moral map: two ways, two destinies. One man refuses the counsel, path, and seat of the wicked and instead chews on the LORD's law day and night. Watch the verbs slow down across verse 1 — walk, stand, sit — tracing how compromise settles in.
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Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
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but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
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He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
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The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
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Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
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For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
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BIENAVENTURADO el varón que no anduvo en consejo de malos, ni estuvo en camino de pecadores, ni en silla de escarnecedores se ha sentado;
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Antes en la ley de Jehová está su delicia, y en su ley medita de día y de noche.
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Y será como el árbol plantado junto á arroyos de aguas, que da su fruto en su tiempo, y su hoja no cae; y todo lo que hace, prosperará.
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No así los malos: sino como el tamo que arrebata el viento.
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Por tanto no se levantarán los malos en el juicio, ni los pecadores en la congregación de los justos.
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Porque Jehová conoce el camino de los justos; mas la senda de los malos perecerá.
A tree against the chaff
The central image (v.3) is a tree planted by water channels, fruitful in season, its leaf unwithered — set directly against chaff that the wind drives off (v.4). Nothing dramatic happens; the psalm simply contrasts rootedness with weightlessness, and lets that picture frame every prayer, lament, and praise that follows in the book.
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