2 But his delight is in Yahweh's law; On his law he meditates day and night.
This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate thereon day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Direct me in the path of your commandments, For I delight in them.
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
I will meditate on your precepts, And consider your ways. I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
How love I your law! It is my meditation all day. Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For your commandments are always with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, For your testimonies are my meditation.
I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of hosts.
> Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to Yahweh's law.
Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
I will delight myself in your commandments, Because I love them. I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
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Commentary on Psalms 1 Matthew Henry Commentary
An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of
The Book of Psalms
Psalm 1
This is a psalm of instruction concerning good and evil, setting before us life and death, the blessing and the curse, that we may take the right way which leads to happiness and avoid that which will certainly end in our misery and ruin. The different character and condition of godly people and wicked people, those that serve God and those that serve him not, is here plainly stated in a few words; so that every man, if he will be faithful to himself, may here see his own face and then read his own doom. That division of the children of men into saints and sinners, righteous and unrighteous, the children of God and the children of the wicked one, as it is ancient, ever since the struggle began between sin and grace, the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, so it is lasting, and will survive all other divisions and subdivisions of men into high and low, rich and poor, bond and free; for by this men's everlasting state will be determined, and the distinction will last as long as heaven and hell. This psalm shows us,
Whoever collected the psalms of David (probably it was Ezra) with good reason put this psalm first, as a preface to the rest, because it is absolutely necessary to the acceptance of our devotions that we be righteous before God (for it is only the prayer of the upright that is his delight), and therefore that we be right in our notions of blessedness and in our choice of the way that leads to it. Those are not fit to put up good prayers who do not walk in good ways.
Psa 1:1-3
The psalmist begins with the character and condition of a godly man, that those may first take the comfort of that to whom it belongs. Here is,
In singing these verses, being duly affected with the malignant and dangerous nature of sin, the transcendent excellencies of the divine law, and the power and efficacy of God's grace, from which our fruit is found, we must teach and admonish ourselves, and one another, to watch against sin and all approaches towards it, to converse much with the word of God, and abound in the fruit of righteousness; and, in praying over them, we must seek to God for his grace both to fortify us against every evil word and work and to furnish us for every good word and work.
Psa 1:4-6
Here is,
In singing these verses, and praying over them, let us possess ourselves with a holy dread of the wicked man's portion, and deprecate it with a firm and lively expectation of the judgment to come, and stir up ourselves to prepare for it, and with a holy care to approve ourselves to God in every thing, entreating his favour with our whole hearts.