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¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly^a, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. ²But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. ³And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither^b; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

⁴The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. ⁵Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. ⁶For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Psalm I

The Good man and the Bad man

Happy is the man who obeys
The breath of God that sweeps across
The strings of Law and Prophecy
For he shall never suffer loss.

 How fortunate is the one who
Lives beneath the tender graces of God,
And does not walk, stand or sit
With people disgracing God.

Hidden springs of strength are found
Through meditation of Jehovah’s ways.
My love to lose, my will is His,
And by that loss I’m free to praise.

The fruitless, rootless wicked life,
The chaff which the wind blows away,
The nothingness of the wicked
Walking in darkness perish away.

         (c) Rex H. Henderson 2003

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