PSALM 101

¹A David psalm.

    Kindness and justice I would sing.

          To You, O LORD, I would hymn.

    ²I would study the way of the blameless:

          when will it come to me?

    I shall go about in my heart’s innocence

          within my house.

    ³I shall not set before my eyes

          any base thing.

    I hate committing transgressions.

          It will not cling to me.

    ⁴May a twisted heart turn far from me.

          May I not know evil.

    ⁵Who defames in secret his fellow,

          him shall I destroy.

    The haughty of eyes and the proud of heart,

          him shall I not suffer.

    ⁶My eyes are on the land’s faithful,

          that they dwell with me.

    Who walks in the way of the blameless,

          it is he who will serve me.

    ⁷Within my house there shall not dwell

          one who practices deceit.

    A speaker of lies shall not stand firm

          before my eyes.

    ⁸Each morning I shall destroy

          all the wicked of the land,

    to cut off from the town of the LORD

          all the wrongdoers.