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Early morning in pale limestone hills: a stony path divides, one way dropping to a line of green trees along a stream, the other running out across a bare threshing floor on the ridge.

Wisdom

Psalm 1

Before the prayers, a choice. What will you let shape you, day and night?

6 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

  1. 1–41Book IDavid's prayers: 'The LORD is my shepherd'Psalm 1
  2. 42–72Book II'As the deer pants'; the throne under pressure
  3. 73–89Book IIIAsaph and Korah: the kingdom falls
  4. 90–106Book IVBack to Moses: the LORD reigns
  5. 107–150Book VSongs of ascents, and the last Hallelujah

The Two Paths

Late afternoon on a stone bench inside a town gate: three men lounge at ease, one laughing and tipping his chin at someone out of frame, a clay jar between them.

Blessed is the man

who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,

or set foot on the path of sinners,

or sit in the seat of mockers.

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But his delight is in the Law of the LORD,

and on His law he meditates day and night.

Psalm 1:2

He is like a tree planted by streams of water,

yielding its fruit in season,

whose leaf does not wither,

and who prospers in all he does.

whose leaf does not wither

Not so the wicked!

For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the LORD guards the path of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.

Two paths

Blessed1Delights in Hislaw2A tree bystreams3The wicked4Chaff in thewind4Will not stand5The LORD guardsthe path6

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Two ways of living, and only one of them lasts. Psalm 2 ends on this same blessing.

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But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

Psalm 1:2

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