Psalms 1:4

Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whosoever he shall do shall prosper.

5Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

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Cross References

Job 21:18They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Psalms 37:36And I passed by, and lo, he was not : and I sought him and his place was not found.

Isaiah 29:5And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed against thee.

Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall be as a morning aloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

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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