KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 1:4–5
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Psalms 1:4
4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
4The vngodly are not so: but are *like the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.
- Psal.34.5. isa.17.13.
Psalms 1:5
5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
5Therefore the vngodly shall not stand in the iudgement, nor sinners in the Congregation of the righteous.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 1:4
Impious, wicked, or lacking reverence toward God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
People, works, kingdoms, or outcomes compared by the verse to light, worthless husks driven away or burned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Breath; power of respiration. Air in motion with any degree of velocity, indefinitely; a current of air.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To force, urge, guide, or cause to move forward.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 1:5
Impious, wicked, or lacking reverence toward God.
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To be upright, remain, endure, take a position, or present oneself.
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Persons who sin; those guilty of transgression against God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
congregation
An assembled body or community of people, especially the gathered people of Israel or worshippers before God.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 4
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Open the full verse study18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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Open the full verse study12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
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Open the full verse study5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.
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Open the full verse study13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
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Open the full verse study3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
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Open the full verse study5Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study5The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
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Open the full verse study46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
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Open the full verse study18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
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Open the full verse study41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
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Open the full verse study36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
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Open the full verse study32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
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Open the full verse study49So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
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Open the full verse study15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
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Open the full verse study7But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
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Open the full verse study9Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
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Open the full verse study16The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
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Open the full verse study3Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
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