Psalm 1

International Children’s Bible

Book 1

Psalms 1—41

Two Ways to Live

1 Happy is the person who doesn’t listen to the wicked.
    He doesn’t go where sinners go.
    He doesn’t do what bad people do.
²He loves the Lord’s teachings.
    He thinks about those teachings day and night.
³He is strong, like a tree planted by a river.
    It produces fruit in season.
    Its leaves don’t die.
Everything he does will succeed.

⁴But wicked people are not like that.
    They are like useless chaff
    that the wind blows away.
⁵So the wicked will not escape God’s punishment.
    Sinners will not worship God with good people.
⁶This is because the Lord protects good people.
    But the wicked will be destroyed.