1 Blest is the man who has
not walked beneath the sinners’ groves
And not stood on the path of vice, nor sat where scoffers sit;
2 Who in JEHOVAH’s Laws delights,
And seeks His rules by day and night.
3 Like trees beside the flowing
stream,
Which bear their fruit in season due,
Their leaves fade not, and they succeed,
In all they undertake to do.
4 Not so the bad, they are
like chaff,
Which winds, will drive away;—
5 The bad will not attain
to rule nor sinners hold the good.
6 For good men’s path the
LORD prepares,
but breaks the bad men’s road.
From: The Holy Bible in Modern English translated by Ferrar Fenton