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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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Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 They love the Lord's teachings, and they think about those teachings day and night.
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but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates 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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He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
4 But wicked people are not like that. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
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The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5 So the wicked will not escape God's punishment. Sinners will not worship with God's people.
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Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation 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 the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.