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• To “walk in the advice of the wicked” means to allow their evil ideas to impact and determine one’s behavior.  +
• “way of the godly” is not their behavior, but their course of life or destiny.  +
• Meditating on the Torah (v.2b) is likened to water channels (v.3a).  +
• אשׁרי (followed by אשׁר) is the reversal of רשע  +
• The language in v.3 evokes the image of a garden  +
• Contrast btw “where” (בְּ) the righteous one is “living” (vv.1-2)  +
• v.3 has a thematic structure of intensification  +
• The alternation of verbs (qatal verbs in v.1) is used poetically as one more way to oppose the righteous from the wicked.  +
• The hiphil verb concludes the first main section.  +
• God’s Torah is like the ground around the river that the tree is planted in  +
• “Fruit” refers to prosperity in life  +
• Contrastive link between “not withering” (v.3) and “[dry] chaff” (v.4).  +
• The agent of v.3d (וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר־יַעֲשֶׂה יַצְלִיחַ) may be either "the man" or "the tree" (semantic density).  +
• The “steadiness” of the tree “שָׁת֪וּל” is contrasted with the helpless motion of the chaff.  +
• Tree vs. chaff is a comparison not only of permanence vs. impermanence, but (agricultural) usefulness vs. uselessness.  +
• הָגָה refers metonymically to intense study and reflection  +
• Study of the “law” is metonymic for the correct attitude and behavior that should result from an awareness of and commitment to God’s moral will.  +
• קוּם is used metonymically for "withstanding"  +
• קוּם is metonymic for taking legal action, i.e., "accusing"  +
• The adverbial phrase יוֹמָם וָלַיְלָה is a merism (day and night = continually).  +
• The imagery of Psalm 1 forms a chiastic structure  +
• Psalm 1 evokes Genesis 1-3  +
• v.1bcd has parallelism of similarity, with a structure of intensification  +
• v.3 has parallelism of specification with a structure of intensification.  +
• v.4 has parallelism of addition/expansion  +
• v.5 has parallelism of similarity  +
• v.6 has parallelism of similarity indicated with contrast  +
• vv.1-3 evoke Deuteronomy 17:16-20  +
• The tree imagery (v.3) has royal overtones.  +
• Meditating on Torah is likened to streams of water  +
• אַשְׁרֵי creates a world-play and evokes the image of "footsteps" (אֲשֻׁרֵי)  +