Chapter 101
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1. By David, a psalm. I will sing of [Your] kindness and justice; to You, O Lord, will I chant praise!
2. I will pay heed to the path of integrity-O when will it come to me? I shall walk with the innocence of my heart [even] within my house.
3. I shall not place an evil thing before my eyes; I despise the doing of wayward deeds, it does not cling to me.
4. A perverse heart shall depart from me; I shall not know evil.
5. He who slanders his fellow in secret, him will I cut down; one with haughty eyes and a lustful heart, him I cannot suffer.
6. My eyes are upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the path of integrity, he shall minister to me.
7. He that practices deceit shall not dwell within my house; the speaker of lies shall have no place before my eyes.
8. Every morning I will cut down all the wicked of the land, to excise all evildoers from the city of the Lord.
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Latest Comments:
I wonder at the conflict between these words of intent, perhaps, and the realities of being King David, a politician, a military leader, a king, and a man who is on record as an adulterer, killer (even murderer) and liar. It's like the pious words of our own American politicians who have one set of words for the public and a personal code of behavior that is quite the opposite. There must be a meaning I am missing.
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