Which road will you take?

Psalm 1

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Psalm 1)

1 How well God must like you—

you don’t hang out at Sin Saloon,

you don’t slink along Dead-End Road,

you don’t go to Smart-Mouth College.

2–3  Instead you thrill to GOD’s Word,

you chew on Scripture day and night.

You’re a tree replanted in Eden,

bearing fresh fruit every month,

Never dropping a leaf,

always in blossom.

4–5  You’re not at all like the wicked,

who are mere wind-blown dust—

Without defense in court,

unfit company for innocent people.

6  GOD charts the road you take.

The road they take is Skid Row

Jack W. Hayford et al., eds., New Spirit-Filled Life Bible (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Bibles, 2002), Ps 1:1–6.l

BLESSED is the man

Who walks not in the *counsel of the ungodly,

Nor stands in the path of sinners,

Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord,

And in His law he meditates day and night.

3 He shall be like a tree

Planted by the rivers of water,

That brings forth its fruit in its season,

Whose leaf also shall not wither;

And whatever he does shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so,

But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,

Nor sinners in the *congregation of the righteous.

6 For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,

But the way of the ungodly shall *perish.

The 3 negatives of descending tragedy

Association lndentification Fixation

People you listen to

Advice

Pathway

Company

Company you keep

Wicked

Sinners

Mockers