Psalms 1: 1 - 2: 11
| BOOK 1 |
| 1Blessed 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; |
| 2but his delight is in the LORD’s law. |
| On his law he meditates day and night. |
| 3He 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. |
| 4The wicked are not so, |
| but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. |
| 5Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgement, |
| nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. |
| 6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, |
| but the way of the wicked shall perish. |
| 1Why do the nations rage, |
| and the peoples plot a vain thing? |
| 2The kings of the earth take a stand, |
| and the rulers take counsel together, |
| against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying, |
| 3“Let’s break their bonds apart, |
| and cast their cords from us.” |
| 4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. |
| The Lord will have them in derision. |
| 5Then he will speak to them in his anger, |
| and terrify them in his wrath: |
| 6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.” |
| 7I will tell of the decree: |
| The LORD said to me, “You are my son. |
| Today I have become your father. |
| 8Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, |
| the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. |
| 9You shall break them with a rod of iron. |
| You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” |
| 10Now therefore be wise, you kings. |
| Be instructed, you judges of the earth. |
| 11Serve the LORD with fear, |
| and rejoice with trembling. |
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