Psalm 1
@2014 Stephen G Brown
This was written as a “first fruits” offering for a songwriting group I participate in. I have an alternate section for the section beginning “He will be like a tree”, but I haven’t recorded that version yet.
Psalm 1
D
How blessed is the man who does not walk
C
In the counsel of the wicked,
G D
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
C
Nor sit in the seat
G D
Lord like I do, the seat of scoffers!
D
Blessed the man whose delight is
C
In the law of the Lord,
G D
And in His law he meditates (both night and day)
D
He will be like a tree planted by the water
G
A tree that gives good fruit when it’s time comes
D
All its leaves stay green, you will not see them wither;
G
And all his does, finds victory.
D
The wicked, my Lord, they are not so,
C
They are lost like the chaff
G D
Lost like the chaff and blown away.
D
The wicked will not stand in the judgment,
C
And sinners have no place among
G D
Among your righteous assembly
D
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
C
But the ways of the wicked
G D
The ways of the wicked will perish