The First Psalm

Verse 1

How blest is he, who ne'er consents by ill advice to walk, Nor stands in sinners ways, nor fits where men profanely talk;

Verse 2

But makes the perfect law of God his bus'ness and delight; Devoutly reads therein by day, and meditates by night.

Verse 3

Like some fair tree, which, fed by streams, with timely fruit does bend, He still shall flourish, and success all his designs attend.

Verse 4

Ungodly men, and their attempts, no lasting root shall find; Untimely blasted, and dispers'd, like chaff before the wind.

Verse 5

Their guilt shall strike the wicked dumb before the Judge's face: No formal hypocrite shall then among the saints have place.

Verse 6

For God approves the just man's ways; to happiness they tend: But sinners, and the paths they tread, shall both in ruin end.