Psalms 1

1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

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 whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law 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 rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

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 evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

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

5 For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

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

6 Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

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