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He is happy when he obeys the Law of the Lord.[a]
He thinks about God's Law during the day and at night.
He will become like a tree that grows beside streams of water.
    It gives its fruit at the right season.
    Its leaves do not fall off.
Everything that person does will have a good result.
But wicked people are as empty as chaff.
    The wind blows them away.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. 1:4 Wicked people do not obey God's rules. God will blow them away like chaff one day.