Chapter 1

The Royal Prophet David placed this Psalm as a Prefacer to the rest, containing ℣.1 true happiness, which consisteth in flying sins, and serving God. ℣.3 The good do prosper, ℣.5 not the wicked: ℣.6 as will appear in the end of this world.

1. 1

   Blessed is the man, that hath not gone in the counsel of the impious, & hath not stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sit in the chair of pestilence:

2. 2

   But his will is in the way of our Lord, and in his law he will meditate day and night.

3. 3

   And he shall be as a tree, that is planted nigh to the streams of waters, which shall give his fruit in his time. And his leaf shall not fall: and all things whatsoever he shall do, shall prosper.

4. 4

   The impious not so, not so: but as dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

5. 5

   Therefore the impious shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the Councel of the just.

6. 6

   For our Lord knoweth the way of the just, and the way of the impious shall perish.