Psalm 101

Of David. A psalm.

¹I will sing of your love and justice;

to you, Lord, I will sing praise.

²I will be careful to lead a blameless life—

when will you come to me?

I will conduct the affairs of my house

with a blameless heart.

³I will not look with approval

on anything that is vile.

I hate what faithless people do;

I will have no part in it.

⁴The perverse of heart shall be far from me;

I will have nothing to do with what is evil.

⁵Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret,

I will put to silence;

whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,

I will not tolerate.

⁶My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,

that they may dwell with me;

the one whose walk is blameless

will minister to me.

⁷No one who practices deceit

will dwell in my house;

no one who speaks falsely

will stand in my presence.

⁸Every morning I will put to silence

all the wicked in the land;

I will cut off every evildoer

from the city of the Lord.