Psalms 1

1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Blessid is the man, that yede not in the councel of wickid men; and stood not in the weie of synneris, and sat not in the chaier of pestilence.

2 but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

But his wille is in the lawe of the Lord; and he schal bithenke in the lawe of hym dai and nyyt.

3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

And he schal be as a tree, which is plauntid bisidis the rennyngis of watris; which tre schal yyue his fruyt in his tyme. And his leef schal not falle doun; and alle thingis which euere he schal do schulen haue prosperite.

4 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Not so wickid men, not so; but thei ben as dust, which the wynd castith awei fro the face of erthe.

5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Therfor wickid men risen not ayen in doom; nethir synneres in the councel of iust men.

6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

For the Lord knowith the weie of iust men; and the weie of wickid men schal perische.