Psalms 1:2

but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

World English Bible Classic

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 doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Psalms 88:1LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Psalms 112:1Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly 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 I delight in them.

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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