Psalms 101

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

The speaker in Psalm 101 resolves to sing praises to the Lord while focusing on loving devotion, justice, and a blameless lifestyle within his own house. He determines to avoid worthless things, hateful deeds, perverse hearts, and association with evil. Furthermore, the speaker declares that he will silence secret slanderers and refuse to endure those with haughty eyes and proud hearts. Instead, he chooses to favor the faithful of the land and allow those who walk in integrity to dwell and minister with him. Consequently, he bans deceitful and lying persons from his house and presence. Finally, he commits to removing all the wicked from the land every morning to cut off evildoers from the city of the Lord.

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¹I will sing of Your loving devotion and justice; to You, O LORD, I will sing praises. ²I will ponder the way that is blameless— when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart. ³I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me. ⁴A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil. ⁵Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure. ⁶My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way of integrity shall minister to me. ⁷No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence. ⁸Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.

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