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A Psalm by David.

101 I will sing of loving kindness and justice.
    To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
I will be careful to live a blameless life.
    When will you come to me?
    I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
I will set no vile thing before my eyes.
    I hate the deeds of faithless men.
    They will not cling to me.
A perverse heart will be far from me.
    I will have nothing to do with evil.
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.
    I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
My 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.
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house.
    He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
    to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.

Psalm 101

A Psalm of David.

I will sing of mercy and loving-kindness and justice; to You, O Lord, will I sing.

I will behave myself wisely and give heed to the blameless way—O when will You come to me? I will walk within my house in integrity and with a blameless heart.

I will set no base or wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of them who turn aside [from the right path]; it shall not grasp hold of me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know no evil person or thing.

Whoso privily slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off [from me]; he who has a haughty look and a proud and arrogant heart I cannot and I will not tolerate.

My eyes shall [look with favor] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks blamelessly, he shall minister to me.

He who works deceit shall not dwell in my house; he who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.

Morning after morning I will root up all the wicked in the land, that I may eliminate all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.