Open English Translation PSA Chapter 1

1 A person will reap the benefits

if they don’t take advice from wicked people,

and don’t stand around where sinners go,

and don’t sit and join all the scoffers.

2 Instead, they enjoy Yahweh’s instructions

and think about them day and night.

3 Those people are like trees that are planted by a stream[ref]

and which produce fruit in season.

Their leaves don’t wither,

and they prosper in everything they do.[ref]

4 But wicked people won’t prosper—

they’re like straw that gets blown away by the wind.

5 The wicked people won’t be able to stand when God judges them,

and sinners won’t be able to join in the assembly of all the godly people,

6 because Yahweh knows the path chosen by godly people,

but the path of wicked people will be destroyed.