< Psalms 101 >
1 A Psalm of David. I will sing of loving-kindness and judgment: unto thee, Jehovah, will I sing psalms.
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. When wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house in the integrity of my 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 thing of Belial 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 evil.
A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me.
5 Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not 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 walketh 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 practiseth deceit shall not dwell within my house; he that speaketh falsehoods shall not subsist in my sight.
The proud doer dwelt not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight.
8 Every morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land: to cut off all workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.
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.