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The two paths[a]

If someone does not do what wicked people tell him to do,
    if he does not join with sinners,
    if he does not meet with those who laugh at God,
God has blessed that person!
He is happy when he obeys the Law of the Lord.[b]
He thinks about God's Law during the day and at night.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:1 This psalm tells us about two groups of people: (1) people who want to please God; (2) people who do not respect God at all. These two groups of people walk along different paths. Each path leads to a different result. Verse 6 tells us what happens to people in each of these groups.
  2. 1:2 When we write Lord like this, it is a special name for God. Sometimes people write it as ‘Yahweh’, or as ‘Jehovah’. It is his own name that he told Moses. See Exodus 3:14. It means ‘I am who I am’. This shows that God has always been there and he always will be there.