Psalms 101 — parallel

101:1

I will sing of loving kindness and justice.

A Psalm of David. I will sing of Your loving devotion and justice; to You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

101:2

I will be careful to live a blameless life.

I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.

101:3

I will set no vile thing before my eyes.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

101:4

A perverse heart will be far from me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.

101:5

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbour.

Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.

101:6

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land,

My 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.

101:7

He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house.

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.

101:8

Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land,

Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.