Psalms 101

1 A Psalm of David. I will sing to you, O Lord, of mercy and judgement; I will sing a psalm,

`The salm of Dauid. Lord, Y schal synge to thee; merci and doom.

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

I schal synge, and Y schal vndurstonde in a weie with out wem; whanne thou schalt come to me. I yede perfitli in the innocence of myn herte; in the myddil of myn hous.

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

I settide not forth bifore myn iyen an vniust thing; Y hatide hem that maden trespassyngis.

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

A schrewide herte cleuede not to me; Y knewe not a wickid man bowynge awei fro me.

5 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.

I pursuede hym; that bacbitide priueli his neiybore. With the proude iye and an herte vnable to be fillid; Y eet not with this.

6 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.

Myn iyen weren to the feithful men of erthe, that thei sitte with me; he that yede in a weie with out wem, mynystride to me.

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

He that doith pride, schal not dwelle in the myddil of myn hous; he that spekith wickid thingis, seruede not in the siyt of myn iyen.

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

In the morutid Y killide alle the synners of erthe; that Y schulde leese fro the citee of the Lord alle men worchynge wickidnesse.