PSALM ONE
This has been called, "The Preface Psalm" because in some
respects it may be considered "the text upon which the whole
of the Psalms make up a divine sermon." It opens with a
benediction: "Blessed" as does our Lord's Sermon on the Mount.
(Matthew 5:3)
-The Amplified Bible
Field with mustard seed as seen from the Mount of Beatitudes
(Israel)
Photograph by Gila Yudkin
"Blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable is the man
who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly, following
their advice, their plans, and purposes, nor stands submissive
and inactive in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down to
relax and rest where the scornful and mockers gather.
But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on
His law, the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God
he habitually meditates, ponders and studies, by day and by night.
And he shall be like a tree firmly planted and tended by the streams
of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall
not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper
and come to maturity.
Not so the wicked, those disobedient and living without God
are not so. But they are like the chaff, worthless, dead, without
substance which the wind drives away.
Therefore the wicked, those disobedient and living without God,
shall not stand justified in judgment, nor sinners in the congregation
of the righteous those who are upright and in right standing with God.
For the Lord knows and is fully acquainted with the way of the
righteous, but the way of the ungodly, those living outside God's will
shall perish, end in ruin and come to naught."
Doorkeeper
Zemer Levav
Galilee of the Nations Music USA Inc.
(2007)
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