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Singing Psalm 1 with Isaac Watts

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Our church just started a sermon series on the Book of Psalms. After the sermon, we are singing the psalm as paraphrased by Isaac Watts who added meter and rhyme. Psalm 1 was written in Common Meter, and we sang it to the tune of one of his more familiar hymns – “We Sing the Greatness of Our God.”

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:
But in the statutes of the Lord
Has placed his chief delight;
By day he reads or hears the word,
And meditates by night.

Green as the leaf, and ever fair,
Shall his profession shine
While fruits of holiness appear
Like clusters on the vine.
Not so the impious…unjust;
What vain designs they form!
Their hopes are blown away like dust,
Or chaff before the storm.

Sinners in judgment shall not stand
Amongst the sons of grace,
When Christ, the Judge, at his right hand
Appoints his saints a place.
His eye beholds the path they tread,
His heart approves it well
But crooked ways of sinners lead
Down to the gates of hell.

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Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked…

Whose advice are we following?

…nor stands in the way of sinners…

Whose actions are we following?

…nor sits in the seat of scoffers…

Whose attitude are we following?

…but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night…

Do we delight in the Word?  Meditate on it?  Ponder it?  Are we following the advice, actions, and attitudes taught in God’s Word?

…he is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season….

If we are meditating on God’s Word, we are like well-watered trees.
To bear good fruit, we must be planted in God’s Word.  Are we?

(From Psalm 1)