The Truly Happy Person

Psalm 1

1 Blessed is the man

  who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,

nor stands in the way of sinners,

  nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,

  and on his law he meditates day and night.

3 He is like a tree

  planted by streams of water

that yields its fruit in its season,

  and its leaf does not wither.

In all that he does, he prospers.

4 The wicked are not so,

  but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

  nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,

  but the way of the wicked will perish.