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 =FIRST BOOK OF THE PSALTER Ps. I.-XLI.= =PSALM 1.=

THE RADICALLY DISTINCT LOT OF THE PIOUS AND THE UNGODLY.
1 BLESSED is the man who walketh not in the counsel at

the ungodly, And standeth not in the way of sinners, And sitteth not in the company of scorners,

2 But his delight is in the Law of Jahve

And in His Law doth he meditate day and night —

3 And he is like a tree planted by the water-courses, Which bringeth forth its fruit in its season,

And its leaf withereth not,

And whatsoever he doeth, he carrieth through.

4 Not thus are the ungodly,

But they are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly cannot stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

6 For Jahve knoweth the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly perisheth. The collection of the Psalms and that of the prophecies of Isaiah resemble one another in the fact, that the one begins with a discourse that bears no superscription, and the other