Psalms 1:2

But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

3He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:8Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.

Job 23:12I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

Psalms 88:1A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.

Psalms 112:1Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

Psalms 119:11I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

Psalms 119:35Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 1:2-4

Psalms We have now before us one of the choicest and most excellent parts of all the Old Testament; nay, so much is there in it of Christ and his gospel, as well as of God and his law, that it had been called the abstract, or summary, of both Testaments. The History of Israel, which we were long upon, let us to camps and council-boards, and there entertained and instructed us in the knowledge of God. The book of Job brought us into the schools, and treated us with profitable disputations concerning God and his… Read the whole commentary →

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