The following expressions occur often in the Psalms:Possibly indicates Pause, Crescendo, or Musical InterludePossibly Contemplative, Didactic, or Skillful PsalmPossibly Epigrammatic Poem or Atonement Psalm
BOOK 1
The Way of the Righteous and Wicked
How blessed is the man who adoes not walk in the bcounsel of the wicked,Nor stand in the cway of sinners,Nor dsit in the seat of scoffers!Prov 4:14Ps 5:9, 10; 10:2-11; 36:1-4Ps 17:4; 119:104Ps 26:4, 5; Jer 15:172 But his adelight is bin the law of 1Yahweh,And in His law he meditates cday and dnight.The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15Ps 119:14, 16, 35Josh 1:8Ps 25:5Ps 63:5, 63 And he will be like aa tree firmly planted by 1streams of water,Which yields its fruit in its seasonAnd its 2leaf does not wither;And 3in whatever he does, bhe prospers.Or canalsOr foliageOr all that he does prospersPs 92:12-14; Jer 17:8; Ezek 19:10Gen 39:2, 3, 23; Ps 128:2
4 The wicked are not so,But they are like achaff which the wind drives away.Job 21:18; Ps 35:5; Is 17:135 Therefore athe wicked will not rise in the bjudgment,Nor sinners in cthe congregation of the righteous.Ps 5:5Ps 9:7, 8, 16Ps 89:5, 76 For Yahweh 1aknows the way of the righteous,But the way of bthe wicked will perish.Or approves, has regard toPs 37:18; Nah 1:7; John 10:14; 2 Tim 2:19Ps 9:5, 6; 11:6