# Psalm 101 ## Psalm 101:1 - [KJV] I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing. - [ASV] I will sing of lovingkindness and justice: Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I sing praises. - [YLT] Kindness and judgment I sing, To Thee, O Jehovah, I sing praise. ### Notes on Psalm 101:1 - ## Psalm 101:2 - [KJV] I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. - [ASV] I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way: Oh when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. - [YLT] I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house. ### Notes on Psalm 101:2 - ## Psalm 101:3 - [KJV] I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; *it* shall not cleave to me. - [ASV] I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me. - [YLT] I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me. ### Notes on Psalm 101:3 - ## Psalm 101:4 - [KJV] A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked *person*. - [ASV] A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will know no evil thing. - [YLT] A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not. ### Notes on Psalm 101:4 - ## Psalm 101:5 - [KJV] Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. - [ASV] Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer. - [YLT] Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not. ### Notes on Psalm 101:5 - ## Psalm 101:6 - [KJV] Mine eyes *shall be* upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. - [ASV] Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall minister unto me. - [YLT] Mine eyes are on the faithful of the land, To dwell with me, Whoso is walking in a perfect way, he serveth me. ### Notes on Psalm 101:6 - ## Psalm 101:7 - [KJV] He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. - [ASV] He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes. - [YLT] He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes. ### Notes on Psalm 101:7 - ## Psalm 101:8 - [KJV] I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD. - [ASV] Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah. - [YLT] At morning I cut off all the wicked of the land, To cut off from the city of Jehovah All the workers of iniquity! ### Notes on Psalm 101:8 -