Below is my rendering of Psalm 1. I’m considering including my own renderings of the Psalms in my book A User’s Guide to Having a Soul. (Here are my comments on Psalm 1.) Let me know what you think.
Want to live the Sweet Life?
Here’s how:
Don’t drive down Wicked Way.
Don’t visit the residents of Sinners Street.
Don’t buy a house on Mockers Mile.
Instead of mocking words,
Fill yourself with God words.
Make them your morning meal,
Your snack, your lunch, your supper,
Your steady diet.
You’ll be a tree drinking straight from the river.
You’ll bear sweet fruit for all to enjoy.
You’ll be free from soul-withering disease.
A whole orchard will spring up from your seeds.
The wicked life is a small life.
It’s a zero life
Blown away by the barest breeze.
How could that kind of life add up to anything?
The self-centered have no business
With those who give themselves away in love.
Yahweh walks with those who love him.
But those who walk away from him
End up in the ditch.