Morning Psalm

Psalm 1 

¹Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked,*

nor lingered in the way of sinners,

nor sat in the seats of the scornful! 

²Their delight is in the law of the LORD, *

and they meditate on his law day and night. 

³They are like trees planted by streams of water,

bearing fruit in due season, with leaves that do not wither; *

everything they do shall prosper. 

⁴It is not so with the wicked;*

they are like chaff which the wind blows away. 

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand upright when judgment comes,*

nor the sinner in the council of the righteous. 

⁶For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, *

but the way of the wicked is doomed.