Psalms 101

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

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

2 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.

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.

3 I will set no wicked thing before my 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 a wicked person.

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

5 Whoever secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart I will not endure.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.