Psalms 1:2

But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

Majority Standard Bible

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

1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:8This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.

Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Psalms 88:1A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.

Psalms 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.

Psalms 119:11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.

Psalms 119:35Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find 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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