True Happiness

PSALM 1
BOOK ONE
(Psalms 1–41)
True Happiness

1 Happy are those
who reject the advice of evil people,
who do not follow the example of sinners
or join those who have no use for God.

2  Instead, they find joy in obeying the Law of the Lord,
and they study it day and night.

3  Jr 17.8 They are like trees that grow beside a stream,
that bear fruit at the right time,
and whose leaves do not dry up.
They succeed in everything they do.

4  But evil people are not like this at all;
they are like straw that the wind blows away.

5  Sinners will be condemned by God
and kept apart from God’s own people.

6  The righteous are guided and protected by the Lord,
but the evil are on the way to their doom.