New Age Psalm 1 compared

Psalm 1
New Age by Stephen Mitchell
Blessed are the man and the woman,
who have grown beyond themselves
and have seen through their separations.
They delight in the way things are and keep their hearts open,
day and night they are like trees planted near flowing rivers,
Which bear fruit when they are ready.
Their leaves will not fall or wither
Everything they do will succeed

This is the Holman Translation which is quite good
How happy is the man who does not follow the advice of the wicked,
or take the path of sinners, or join a group of mockers!
Instead, his delight is in the LORD's instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.
He is like a tree planted beside streams of water that bears its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
The wicked are not like this; instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not survive the judgment, and sinners will not be in the community of the righteous.
For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.
(Psa 1:1-6 HCSB)


Hass, Robert
Into the garden:
A wedding anthology: Poetry and prose on love and marriage
edited by Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell 1994
Haper Perennial
A division of HarperCollins
Other books by Stephen Mitchell
The gospel according to Jesus
Tao Te Ching
The Book of Job
The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai(with Chana Bloch)
Dropping ashes on the Buddha: the teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn