Psalm I

To the Tune of Old 100.

Blest is the man who doth avoid
The Counsel of ungodly mates;
Who stands not in the sinners way,
Nor sitteth in the scorners seats.

But in the holy Law of God
Doth choose and place his chief delight;
And (with sincere obedient heart)
Meditates in it day and night.

We shall be like the prosp'ring tree
That planted by a rivers side,
In season yieldeth plenteous fruit,
Whose leaf doth always green abide.

The Lord will prosper this mans work,
But the ungodly are not so,
But like rejected worthless chaff,
Which every wind drives to and fro.

Therefore th' ungodly shall not stand,
But fall, when judgment gives their doom;
Nor sinners in the righteous mens
Blessed assembly ever come.

Because the way of righteous men,
The Lord with approbation knows;
But the way of ungodly men
To their own just destruction goes.