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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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/psalms/1.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <hgroup><h2 class="psalm-book">BOOK ONE</span></h2><h3 class="psalm-book"><span class="text Ps-1-1">Psalms 1–41</span></h3></hgroup><h3><span class="text Ps-1-1">The Way of the Righteous and the End of the Ungodly</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Ps-1-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Blessed <i>is</i> the man</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-1">Who walks not in the counsel of the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>ungodly,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-1">Nor stands in the path of sinners,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-1">Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But his delight <i>is</i> in the law of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-2">And in His law he <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>meditates day and night.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He shall be like a tree</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-3">Planted by the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>rivers of water,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-3">That brings forth its fruit in its season,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-3">Whose leaf also shall not wither;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-3">And whatever he does shall prosper.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The ungodly <i>are</i> not so,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-4">But <i>are</i> like the chaff which the wind drives away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-5">Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> knows the way of the righteous,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-6">But the way of the ungodly shall perish.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13941a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 1:1">Psalm 1:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>wicked</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13942b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 1:2">Psalm 1:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>ponders</i> by talking to himself</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13943c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 1:3">Psalm 1:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>channels</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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