Psalms 1:2

But the law of the Lord is their joy, they study it 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 are those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked, not halting in ways frequented by sinners, nor taking a seat in a gathering of scoffers.

3They are like trees planted by runlets of water, yielding fruit in due season, leaves never fading. In all that they do, they prosper.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:8This book of the law you should never cease to have on your lips. You must pore over it day and night, that you may be mindful to carry out all that is written in it, for so will you make your way prosperous, so will you succeed.

Psalms 88:1O Lord my God, I cry for help in the day-time, in the night my cry is before you;

Psalms 112:1Hallelujah. Happy are those who revere the Lord, and greatly delight in his commandments.

Psalms 119:11In my heart have I treasured your word, to keep from sinning against you.

Psalms 119:35Guide me in the path of your commandments, for therein do I 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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