Blest Is He Who Loves God’s Precepts

Blest is he who loves God’s pre­cepts

Who from sin re­strains his feet

He who will not stand with sin­ners

He who shuns the scorn­ers’ seat.

Blest is he who makes the sta­tutes

Of the Lord his chief de­light

In God’s law

di­vine­ly per­fect

Meditating day and night.

He is like a tree well plant­ed

By the flow­ing riv­er’s side

Ever green of leaf and fruit­ful:

Thus shall all his works abide.

Like the driv­en chaff the wick­ed

Shall be swept from off the land

With the just they shall not ga­ther

Nor shall in the judg­ment stand.

Well the Lord will guard the right­eous

For their way to Him is known;

But the way of ev­il­do­ers

Shall by Him be ov­er­thrown.