Setting
How blessed the one who does not walk
Free Church of Scotland psalter · 8 8 8 8 8 8
The words
How blessed the one who does not walk Where wicked men would guide his feet, Who does not stand in sinners’ paths Or sit upon the scorners’ seat. The law of God is his delight, His meditation day and night.
He prospers like a tree, which has Been planted by a flowing stream, And in its season yields its fruit; Its leaves are always fresh and green. In every act and every word He knows the blessing of the LORD.
Not so the wicked: they are like The chaff the wind will blow away. They will not in the judgment stand, Nor sinners with the righteous stay. God knows the way the righteous go; The wicked’s way he’ll overthrow.
Source & provenance
Free Church of Scotland psalter · psalter
An unedited transcription of the Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003) edition.
Full provenance & rights
- Base edition
- Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003)
- Editor
- Psalmody Committee of the Free Church of Scotland
- Editing
- unedited transcription
Rights
- Copyright
- rights-verified (display held); FCS terms recorded 2026-10-08 — verbatim text in a notated setting with independent tune MIDI is within terms (text free, FCS attribution displayed); copy/print/offline not granted; no audio derivatives
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- Display
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Tunes it can be sung to
2 tunes
St. Petersburg
curated well-matched8.8.8.8.8.8
Wych Cross
curated well-matched8.8.8.8.8.8
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