1 BOOK I (Psalms 42–72) Psalm 1 The Two Ways How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers!2 Instead, his delight is in the Lord ’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.3 He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams Or beside irrigation channels that bears its fruit in its season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.4 The wicked are not like this; instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.5 Therefore the wicked will not stand up in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.