Psalms 1:4

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

In Context

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.

5For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

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Cross References

Job 21:18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

Psalms 37:36But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

Isaiah 29:5And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

Hosea 13:3So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

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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