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Psalm 1:1 through Psalm 1:6 (NIV)
1 Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does 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 perish.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-3
To meditate in God’s word, is to discourse with ourselves concerning the great
things contained in it, with close application of mind and fixedness of thought.
We must have constant regard to the word of God, as the rule of our actions, and
the spring of our comforts; and have it in our thoughts night and day. For this
purpose no time is amiss.
VERSES 4-6
The ungodly are the reverse of the righteous, both in character and condition.
The ungodly are not so, vs. 4; they are led by the counsel of the wicked, in the
way of sinners, to the seat of the scornful; they have no delight in the law of
God; they bring forth no fruit but what is evil. The righteous are like useful,
fruitful trees: the ungodly are like the chaff which the wind drives away: the
dust which the owner of the floor desires to have driven away, as not being of
any use. They are of no worth in God’s account, how highly soever they may value
themselves. They are easily driven to and fro by every wind of temptation. The
chaff may be, for a while, among the wheat, but He is coming, whose fan is in
his hand, and who will thoroughly purge his floor. Those that, by their own sin
and folly, make themselves as chaff, will be found so before the whirlwind and
fire of Divine wrath. The doom of the ungodly is fixed, but whenever the sinner
becomes sensible of this guilt and misery, he may be admitted into the company
of the righteous by Christ the living way, and become in Christ a new creature.
He has new desires, new pleasures, hopes, fears, sorrows, companions, and
employments. His thoughts, words, and actions are changed. He enters on a new
state, and bears a new character. Behold, all things are become new by Divine
grace, which changes his soul into the image of the Redeemer. How different the
character and end of the ungodly!