Psalms 101 WEB
Summary: A royal psalm of David outlining a personal and administrative code of conduct for a righteous ruler, opening "I will sing of mercy and judgment... I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way" (v. 1-2). He vows to keep his own house free of wickedness — "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes" (v. 3) — and to exclude from his court the proud, the slanderer, and the deceitful, while favoring "the faithful of the land" (v. 6). It closes resolving to actively "cut off" evildoers from the city of the LORD, a vision of governance meant to model God's own justice.
1I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
2I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
3I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
4A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
6My 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.
7He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
8Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
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