Blest Is He Who Loves God's Precepts

Blest is he who loves God's precepts,

Who from sin restrains his feet,

He who will not stand with sinners,

He who shuns the scorners' seat.

Blest is he who makes the statutes

Of the Lord his chief delight,

In God's law, divinely perfect,

Meditating day and night.

He is like a tree well planted

By the flowing river's side,

Ever green of leaf and fruitful:

Thus shall all his works abide.

Like the driven chaff the wicked

Shall be swept from off the land

With the just they shall not gather,

Nor shall in the judgment stand.

Well the Lord will guard the righteous,

For their way to Him is known;

But the way of evildoers

Shall by Him be overthrown.