New Century Version NCV
The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
1 Happy are those who don't listen to the wicked, who don't go where sinners go, who don't do what evil people do.
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How blessed are those who reject the advice of the wicked, don't stand on the way of sinners or sit where scoffers sit!
2 They love the Lord's teachings, and they think about those teachings day and night.
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Their delight is in ADONAI's Torah; on his Torah they meditate day and night.
3 They are strong, like a tree planted by a river. The tree produces fruit in season, and its leaves don't die. Everything they do will succeed.
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They are like trees planted by streams -they bear their fruit in season, their leaves never wither, everything they do succeeds.
4 But wicked people are not like that. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
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Not so the wicked, who are like chaff driven by the wind.
5 So the wicked will not escape God's punishment. Sinners will not worship with God's people.
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For this reason the wicked won't stand up to the judgment, nor will sinners at the gathering of the righteous.
6 This is because the Lord takes care of his people, but the wicked will be destroyed.
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For ADONAI watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is doomed.
Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.