Psalms 1:5
Therefore the wicked rise not in judgment, Nor sinners in the company of the righteous,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4Not so the wicked: But — as chaff that wind driveth away!
6For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!
Cross References
Psalms 5:5The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity.
Psalms 9:16Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.
Psalms 26:9Do not gather with sinners my soul, And with men of blood my life,
Matthew 13:49so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous,
Matthew 25:41Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;
Luke 21:36watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'
Matthew Henry on Psalms 1:5-6
Description and Doom of the Ungodly. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Here is, I. The description of the ungodly given, v. 4 . 1. In general, they are the reverse of the righteous, both in character and condition: They are not so. The LXX. emphatically repeats this: Not so the… Read the whole commentary →