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Psalms 1

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The doorway to the whole Psalter: two ways of life — the flourishing way of delight in God's law, and the way that perishes.

Psalm 1 frames the entire book as a choice between the righteous, "like a tree planted by streams of water," and the wicked, "like chaff." It sets meditation on God's word as the root of a flourishing life.

Part of Book I📖 Psalms introduction

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1Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; ✦ 2but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night. ✦ 3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper. ✦ 4The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. ✦ 5Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. ✦ 6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish. ✦

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In this chapter

Theme Living WaterConcept "Blessed" (Ashrei)

Where this chapter connects

Ps 119 ·10Ps 146 ·3Ps 112 ·3Matt 21 ·3Ps 9 ·3Matt 25 ·3Ps 26 ·3Prov 4 ·2

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Resources, by level

Lay

  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 1YouTube · Lay · Free

    Sermons and chapter teaching from across YouTube.

  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 1David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 1Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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