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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 1 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/psalms/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Psalm 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/42.htm" title="Job 42">◄</a> Psalm 1 <a href="../psalms/2.htm" title="Psalm 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h2 class="ms">BOOK ONE</h2><h3 class="mr">(Psalms 1–41)</h3><h3 class="s">True Happiness</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v19_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.1.1" class="v19_1_1">1</span>Happy are those</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_1_1">who reject the advice of evil people,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_1_1">who do not follow the example of sinners</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_1_1">or join those who have no use for God.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.1.2" class="v19_1_2">2</span>Instead, they find joy in obeying the Law of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_1_2">and they study it day and night.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.1.3" class="v19_1_3">3</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.1.3!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> They are like trees that grow beside a stream,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_1_3">that bear fruit at the right time,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_1_3">and whose leaves do not dry up.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_1_3">They succeed in everything they do.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.1.4" class="v19_1_4">4</span>But evil people are not like this at all;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_1_4">they are like straw that the wind blows away.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.1.5" class="v19_1_5">5</span>Sinners will be condemned by God</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_1_5">and kept apart from God's own people.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.1.6" class="v19_1_6">6</span>The righteous are guided and protected by the <span class="nd">Lord</span>,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_1_6">but the evil are on the way to their doom.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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