Psalm 1
The way of the Righteous contrasted with the way of the ungodly.
Who is blessed by God?
Blessed is the man v1
“......Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;” (, NKJV)
6098. עֵצָה ʿēṣāh: A feminine noun meaning advice, a plan. It sometimes may suggest the idea of a plot
7563. רָשָׁע rāšāʿ: An adjective meaning wicked, guilty, in the wrong, criminal, transgressor.
5975. עָמַד ʿāmaḏ: A verb meaning to stand, to rise up; to take one’s stand.
2400. חַטָּא ḥaṭṭāʾ: A masculine noun meaning sinners and an adjective meaning sinful
3427. יָשַׁב yāšaḇ: A verb meaning to sit, to dwell, to inhabit, to endure, to stay.
3887. לִוּץ lûṣ, לִיץ liyṣ, לֵץ lēṣ: A verb meaning to boast, to scorn, to mock, to deride, or to imitate.
8 So Abram said to Lot, j“Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. 9 kIs not the whole land before you? Please lseparate from me. mIf you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”
10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all nthe plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the LORD odestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) plike the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go toward qZoar. 11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other. 12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot rdwelt in the cities of the plain and spitched his tent even as far as Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom twere exceedingly wicked and usinful against the LORD.
The blessed person finds his pleasure in the Word of God.
“But his delight is in the law of the Lord, (, NKJV)
2656. חֵפֶץ ḥēp̱eṣ: A masculine noun meaning delight, pleasure, desire, matter. The root idea is to incline toward something.
And in His law he meditates day and night.” (, NKJV)
“He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, (, NKJV)
That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; (, NKJV)
And whatever he does shall prosper.” (, NKJV)
The ungodly are not blessed.
“The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.” (, NKJV)
The psalmist’s mention of chaff takes us back to the farming techniques of that time. The farmer would place the wheat he had harvested on a stone threshing floor and drive his oxen around it so that their hooves would separate the grain from the husks. He would then use a kind of fork or shovel to pitch the grain and the chaff in the air. The grain would fall to the floor to be preserved and the chaff would be blown away.
The chaff represents those whose lives are not rooted in the Word of God.