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 neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty 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 evildoers from the LORD's city.