Meditation

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Comparing the Metrical version of Psalm 1 with the NIV;

Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,

You get a good sense of the effectiveness of the poetic meter over the prose translation. In the metric, we have perfect blessedness, not merely a passive blessedness.​

And the words "walketh not astray" Are more powerful than "does not walk in step".

The rhyming meter also brings out the subtle downward slope of sin more insistently. Moving step by step from walking to standing to finally sitting down in a chair.

There's a sense of finality and resignation to it that we don't get from the phrase "sit in the company and mockers."

Be sure to click on the link here or below to hear how this Psalm sounds as it is sung unaccompanied.

Today's verses are Psalm 1:1-3. Yesterday's verses are provided in grey for context and catch-up.

^{Psalm 1}

¹ That man hath perfect blessedness,
who walketh not astray
In counsel of ungodly men,
nor stands in sinners’ way,

Nor sitteth in the scorner’s chair:

² But placeth his delight
Upon God’s law, and meditates
on his law day and night.

³ He shall be like a tree that grows
near planted by a river,
Which in his season yields his fruit,
and his leaf fadeth never:

And all he doth shall prosper well

⁴ The wicked are not so;
But like they are unto the chaff,
which wind drives to and fro.

⁵ In judgment therefore shall not stand
such as ungodly are;
Nor in th’ assembly of the just
shall wicked men appear.

⁶ For why? the way of godly men
unto the Lord is known:
Whereas the way of wicked men
shall quite be overthrown.

Encouragement

⁸ Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Joshua 1:8

​​​Andy

God's Word In Your Hand

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