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1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers;
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The truly happy person doesn't follow wicked advice, doesn't stand on the road of sinners, and doesn't sit with the disrespectful.
2 but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night.
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Instead of doing those things, these persons love the LORD's Instruction, and they recite God's Instruction day and night!
3 They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper.
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They are like a tree replanted by streams of water, which bears fruit at just the right time and whose leaves don't fade. Whatever they do succeeds.
4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
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That's not true for the wicked! They are like dust that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
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And that's why the wicked will have no standing in the court of justice— neither will sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
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The LORD is intimately acquainted with the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is destroyed.