Psalm One

Memorable!

Psalm 1 The Message (MSG)

   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 windblown dust— 

   Without defense in court, 

      unfit company for innocent people. 

 6 God charts the road you take. 

   The road they take is Skid Row.

Many Bible stories were read to me as a boy, and it was my matriarchal assignment to learn many Bible verses and psalms. Psalm One was one of those. It’s been seventy or more years, and it would not be possible for me to stand up and say them as then, to my mother or to my class at Cove School. Even the 23rd Psalm slips a bit sometimes. We always memorized from the King James Bible, if for no other reason than that was all we had. Which, all things considered, was pretty good. 

Your assignment for today is to memorize TM version of Psalm One above. :) I’ve already got mine memorized:

Psalm 1 King James Version (KJV)

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in due season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

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