1 Blessed are those who do not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,

2 but who delight in the law of the Lord and meditate on his law day and night.

3 They are like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.

4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will be destroyed.