Psalms 101

1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto you, O LORD, will I sing.

A Psalm of David. I will sing to thee, O Lord, of mercy and judgment; I will sing a psalm,

2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

and I will be wise in a blameless way. When wilt thou come to me? I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful ting; I have hated transgressors.

4 A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me.

5 Whoso privately slanders his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that has an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Him that privily speaks against his neighbour, him have I driven from [me]: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart, —with him I have not eaten.

6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

Mine eyes [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walked in a perfect way, the same ministered to me.

7 He that works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that tells lies shall not tarry in my sight.

The proud doer dwelt not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight.

8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

Early did I slay all the sinners of the land, that I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity.