Psalms 101

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

A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and judgment: to thee, O LORD, will I 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.

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

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

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

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

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked [person].

5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I will not tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

Whoever privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

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 [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

7 He who practices deceit will not dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood will not be established before my eyes.

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

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.

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all who practice wickedness from the city of the LORD.