Psalms 101

1 A Psalm by David. I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, LORD, I will sing praises.

A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, O Lord: I will sing,

2 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.

And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

3 I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

I did not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities.

4 A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know.

5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbour. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

6 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.

My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me.

7 He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.

8 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.

In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.