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Psalm 1 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
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  • 1965
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1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
1 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;
2 But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
2 but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
3 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.
4 The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
4 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,
5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Cross references (6)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 26:4–5; Proverbs 4:14–15; Proverbs 13:20; Psalm 119:1–2; Jeremiah 15:17
  2. 2 Joshua 1:8; Psalm 119:92; Psalm 119:11; Romans 7:22; Psalm 119:97–99
  3. 3 Jeremiah 17:8; Ezekiel 47:12; Psalm 92:14; John 15:6; Ezekiel 19:10
  4. 4 Job 21:18; Matthew 3:12; Psalm 35:5; Isaiah 17:13; Hosea 13:3
  5. 5 Psalm 5:5; Matthew 25:46; Malachi 3:18; Matthew 25:41; Luke 21:36
  6. 6 2 Timothy 2:19; John 10:14; Proverbs 15:9; Nahum 1:7; Psalm 37:18–24

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm I)

    (ver. 1). This is to be understood of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Man. "Blessed is the man that hath not gone away in the counsel of the ungodly," as "the man of earth did," who consented to his wife deceived by the serpent, to the transgressing the commandment of God.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 1:2 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book V, Preface)

    Those who make their way by faith steadily towards the Father and the Son; for this is denoted by the steadiness of those which divide the hoof; and they meditate day and night upon the words of God, that they may be adorned with good works: for this is the meaning of the ruminants.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 1:2 Gregory of Nazianzus, Theological Orations (The First Theological Oration)

    Yea, I am one of those who entirely approve that Word which bids us meditate day and night, and tell at eventide and morning and noon day, and praise the Lord at every time; or, to use Moses' words, whether a man lie down, or rise up, or walk by the way, or whatever else he be doing --and by …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  4. Quotes verse 1:3 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book IV, Chapters XVII–XVIII)

    For just as the tree planted by the channels of waters, so also the soul watered by the divine Scripture is enriched and gives fruit in its season, viz.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)