Psalms 101
1 Yahweh, I will sing to you! I will sing about [your] faithfully loving [us] (OR, my being loyal to you and acting justly/fairly [toward people]).
A Psalm by David. I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, LORD, I will sing praises.
2 [I promise that] while I rule people [MTY], I will behave in such a way that no one will be able to criticize me. Yahweh, (when will you come to [help] me?/I need you to come to [help] me.) [RHQ] I will do things that are right.
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
3 I will not allow stay away from those who do what is evil [SYN]. I hate the deeds of those who ([turn away from/sin against]) you; I will (completely avoid those people/not allow those people to come near me).
I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
4 I will not be dishonest, and I will not have anything to do with evil (OR, evil people).
A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
5 I will get rid of anyone who secretly slanders someone else, and I will not (tolerate/allow to be near me) anyone who is proud and arrogant [DOU].
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbour. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
6 I will approve of [IDM] people in this land who (are loyal to/faithfully [obey]) [God], and I will allow them to (live with/work for) me. I will allow those who behave in such a way that no one can criticize them to (serve me/be my officials).
My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.
7 I will not allow anyone who deceives others to work in my palace; no one who tells lies will be allowed to continually come to [work for] me.
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
8 Every day I will [try to] get rid of all the wicked people in this land; I will [do that by] expelling them from [this] city, which is Yahweh’s city.
Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the LORD’s city.
