The actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version (‘HE’ Bible) — Psalms Chapter 1.

CHAP. I.

1 The happinesse of the godly. 4 The vnhappinesse of the vngodly.

¹ Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsell of the vngodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornefull.¹

² But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Law doeth he meditate day and night.²

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³ And he shalbe like a tree planted by the riuers of water, that bringeth foorth his fruit in his season, his leafe also shall not wither, and whatsoeuer he doeth, shall prosper.³

⁴ The vngodly are not so: but are like the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.⁴

⁵ Therefore the vngodly shall not stand in the iudgement, nor sinners in the Congregation of the righteous.

⁶ For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the vngodly shall perish.

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