Psalms 101

The King's Vow of Righteous Rule

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Overview

In this royal psalm, the king pledges to praise God's loving kindness and justice while ordering his own conduct — disciplining eye, heart, and tongue, cultivating faithful companions, and expelling the wicked from his court — a vision of holy kingship that Catholic tradition reads as both a messianic portrait and a moral program for every baptized person.

Passages

1–2The King's Opening Vow: Praise and Blameless Living 3–5The Guarded Soul: Integrity of Eye, Heart, and Tongue 6–8The King's Household: Fidelity, Purging, and the Standard of Holy Governance

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Psalms 101

¹A Psalm by David. I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.

²I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

³I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

⁴A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

⁵I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

⁶My 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.

⁷He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

⁸Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.

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