Psalm 1:2-3

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 1:1-3

The Way of the Righteous. ‘Blessed is the man, Who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Or stand in the way of sinners, Or sit in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of YHWH, And in his law he meditates day and night.’ The psalmist first declares that the righteous are blessed. To be righteous means to be in a right relationship with God, having a heart that responds to Him and His word, and walking in His ways, using the provided means of mercy and forgiveness from... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 1:1-6

BOOK I.— PSS. I– XLI. I. The Jewish Saint.— This and Psalms 2 (see, however, on Psalms 33) are the only Pss. in Book I. which have no title or superscription. In Acts 13:33, there is very ancient authority for reading “ in the first Ps.,” though the Ps. quoted stands second in the Psalter, as we have it. Origen had seen Psalms 1 joined with Psalms 2 in a Heb. copy, and the same arrangement is still found in some Heb. MSS. Probably then Psalms 1 was prefixed as an introduction to the rest of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 1:2

In the law, i.e. in the study and practice of it, as appears from the context. The law of God may be here understood of the whole doctrine delivered by God to the church, consisting of doctrines, precepts, promises, and threatening, &c.; as it is taken Psalms 37:1; Psalms 58:1; Isaiah 51:7; John 10:34; or more particularly of the preceptive part of it, which is commonly so called; and so this is noted as the peculiar character of a good man, that he delighteth himself not only in the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 1:3

And, or for, as this particle is oft used, as Psalms 60:12; Psalms 108:13; Proverbs 4:17; this being the proof of that blessedness of a good man, which he had only asserted, Psalms 1:1. By the rivers, i.e. a river; the plural number being put for the singular, as it is Judges 12:7; Jonah 1:5, and oft elsewhere. In his season, i.e. in the time of fruit-bearing; which being applied to the good man, notes either, 1. His active goodness, that he seeketh and improveth all opportunities for the doing... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 1:1-6

INTRODUCTION“This psalm seems to have been placed first in the collection, because, from its general character and subject, it formed a suitable introduction to the rest. It treats of the blessedness of the righteous, and the misery of the wicked—topics which constantly recur in the psalms, but it treats of them as if all experience pointed only in one direction. The moral problem which in other psalms troubles the ancient poets of Israel, when they see the avil prospering and the good... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 1:1-2

Psalms 1:1-2 I. This law, which we have to learn, and by keeping of which we shall be blessed, is nothing else than God's will. If you wish to learn the law of the Lord, keep your soul pious, pure, reverent, and earnest; for it is only the pure in heart who shall see God, and only those who do God's will as far as they know it who will know concerning any doctrine whether it be true or false, in one word whether it be of God. II. This law is the law of the Lord. You cannot have a law without a... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 1:1-3

Psalms 1:1-3 In the figure of ver. 3 there are revealed three aspects of godly character. I. Its variety. The comparison is with a fruit-tree, not of any particular kind, but one of that large class of trees. The variety which God stamps upon nature He means to have reproduced in character. II. Its Divine culture. The godly man is not like a tree that grows wild. He is like a tree planted, and that in a place which will best promote its growth. Godly character is developed under God's special... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 1:1-6

Psalms 1:0 Ver. 1. There are cases in which without a figure "ignorance is bliss." Observe that all the characters mentioned here may have their excellences and their attractions; for example, the ungodly may be rich, the sinners may be convivial, the scornful may be brilliant: yet blessed is the man who has nothing to do with them. Ver. 2: "But his delight is in the law of the Lord," etc. The idea is that of a man who sees the law of the Lord in all nature, in all history, all life, everywhere... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 1:3

Psalms 1:3 The spiritual plant of God is placed by the running waters; it is nourished and recruited by the never-failing, the perpetual, the daily and hourly, supply of their wholesome influences. It grows up gradually, silently, without observation; and in proportion as it rises aloft, so do its roots, with still less observation, strike deep into the earth. Year after year it grows more and more into the hope and the posture of a glorious immobility and unchangeableness. What it has been,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 1:1-4

DISCOURSE: 494CHARACTERS OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKEDPsalms 1:1-4. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful: but his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not... read more

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