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. Lord of Eternity — Fernando Ortega (2015) Psalms 1:1-2

    The opening adapts the psalm's description of a blessed person whose conduct and delight are shaped by God's instruction.

  3. Psalm 1 (That Man Hath Perfect Blessedness) — Brian Sauvé (2021) Psalms 1:1-6

    The entire song is a close metrical rendering of Psalm 1, preserving its progression from delight in God's law to the contrasting images of a fruitful tree and wind-driven chaff, followed by final judgment upon the two ways.

  4. Worship — Diamonds to Dust (2017) Psalms 1:1-2

    The song closely follows the psalm’s description of the blessed person as one who avoids the company of the wicked and delights in the Lord’s law.

  5. Perseverance — Bryann T. (2015) Psalms 1:1-6

    The opening explicitly identifies and recites nearly the entire psalm, despite transcription errors. The choruses return to its warning against adopting the company and conduct of sinners.

  6. Thrive — Casting Crowns (2014) Psalms 1:2-3

    The opening compares believers to a tree sustained by nearby water. The later emphasis on deep engagement with Scripture reinforces Psalm 1's connection between God's instruction and enduring flourishing.

  7. 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.

  8. Call Upon — Bryann T. (2020) Psalms 1:2-3

    Within the Psalm 15 exposition, the song incorporates Psalm 1's description of the righteous person delighting in God's instruction and meditating on it continually.

  9. Desenvolvendo Amor — MORADA (2013) Psalms 1:3

    The bridge depicts the believer as a fruitful tree planted beside streams, unmistakably adapting Psalm 1's image of flourishing through rootedness in God's instruction.

  10. I Shall Not Be Moved — Elvis Presley (2014) Psalms 1:3

    The repeated comparison to a tree planted beside water closely reproduces Psalm 1's distinctive image of the righteous person sustained by streams.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. We Shall Not Be Moved — Mavis Staples (2007) Psalms 1:3

    The chorus closely adapts the psalm's comparison of the righteous person to a tree planted beside water. The song applies that image of sustained rootedness to a community resisting intimidation.

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.