Psalms 1

Which worship songs are based on Psalms 1?

  1. Psalm 1 — Sons of Korah (2009) Psalms 1:1-6

    The song closely renders the entire psalm, preserving its progression from avoiding wicked counsel and delighting in divine instruction to the contrasting images of a fruitful tree and wind-driven chaff, followed by final judgment.

  2. Stay With You — Jonathan Ogden (2026) Psalms 1:2-4

    The song combines delight in God's word across day and night with river, seasonal, leaf, and wind imagery. That cluster closely follows Psalm 1's portrait of the faithful person beside flowing water and its contrasting image of what the wind carries away.

  3. Keep Going — Sam Purpose (2023) Psalms 1:3

    The image of a tree planted beside sustaining waters directly evokes Psalm 1's portrait of the righteous person who remains fruitful and established.

  4. God Is In Control — DOE (2024) Psalms 1:3

    The bridge's image of being planted beside streams directly draws from Psalm 1's portrayal of the person grounded in God's instruction.

Psalms 1 (King James Version)

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.