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Psalm 1.
Blest is the man who shuns the place
Where sinners love to meet,
Who fears to tread their wicked ways,
And hates the scoffer’s seat:
2 But in the statutes of the Lord,
Has placed his chief delight;
By day he reads or hears the word,
And meditates by night.
3 Green as the leaf, and ever fair,
Shall his profession shine:
While fruits of holiness appear
Like clusters on the vine.
4 Not so the impious and unjust:
What vain designs they form!
Their hopes are blown away like dust,
Or chaff before the storm.
5 Sinners in judgment shall not stand
Among the sons of grace,
When Christ the judge at his right hand
Appoints his saints a place.
6 His eyes behold the path they tread,
His heart approves it well;
But crooked ways of sinners lead
Down to the gates of hell.
Watts.