Psalm 101
The full text of Psalm 101 in the Trinity Bible Version — clear modern English, translated from the original Hebrew. Free to read.
A psalm of David.
1 I will sing of steadfast love and justice;
to you, O LORD, I will make music.
2 I will ponder the way that is blameless.
Oh when will you come to me?
I will walk with integrity of heart
within my house;
3 I will not set before my eyes
anything that is worthless.
I hate the work of those who fall away;
it shall not cling to me.
4 A perverse heart shall be far from me;
I will know nothing of evil.
5 Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly
I will destroy.
Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart
I will not endure.
6 I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,
that they may dwell with me;
he who walks in the way that is blameless
shall minister to me.
7 No one who practices deceit
shall dwell in my house;
no one who utters lies
shall continue before my eyes.
8 Morning by morning I will destroy
all the wicked in the land,
cutting off all the evildoers
from the city of the LORD.
Translation notes (2)
- Psalm 101:3a The phrase is devar-beliyyaal, literally 'a thing of belial', a Hebrew term combining beli, 'without', and yaal, 'worth' or 'profit'. It denotes not mere triviality but active wickedness, as in the 'sons of belial' of Deuteronomy 13:13. In later Jewish literature and in 2 Corinthians 6:15 Belial becomes a proper name for the adversary of God.
- Psalm 101:8a The Hebrew labbeqarim (לַבְּקָרִים), literally 'at the mornings', reflects the ancient Near Eastern custom of kings dispensing justice at the city gate in the early hours, a royal duty also assumed in Jeremiah 21:12, 'Execute justice in the morning'. The king thus vows a daily, not occasional, purging of evildoers from his realm.
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