Psalm 1 - Good News Bible (Catholic edition in Septuagint order)

Book One

True Happiness

¹ Happy are those who reject the advice of evil people, who do not follow the example of sinners or join those who have no use for God.

² Instead, they find joy in obeying the Law of the LORD, and they study it day and night.

³ They are like trees that grow beside a stream, that bear fruit at the right time, and whose leaves do not dry up. They succeed in everything they do.

⁴ But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.

⁵ Sinners will be condemned by God and kept apart from God's own people.

⁶ The righteous are guided and protected by the LORD, but the evil are on the way to their doom.