Psalms 1

Psalms 1:1

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Blessedness is the thing we all drive at: would ye then know who is a blessed and happy man? It is he, that first refraineth himself from all evil: and whereas there are three degrees of wicked men, ungodly in their thoughts, sinners in their actions, and scorners in their words and carriage; this man holds aloof from them all; not yielding to frame himself, either to the counsels of the ungodly, to continue in the way and manner of life which is used by sinners, or to settle himself in a resolution to join with the scornful enemies of grace and goodness.

Psalms 1:2

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

But, contrarily, instead of these lewd courses and sinful pleasures, his delight is wholly placed in the Lord his God; and for his sake, in the word of that God; and wherewith his heart is so taken up, that he spendeth his thoughts upon it day and night.

Psalms 1:6

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous.

For the Lord takes special notice of the actions and events of godly men: he graciously accepts of what they do, and wisely and mercifully ordereth the issues of all things to their good.