Of David. A psalm.
1 I will sing of your love and justice;
to you, Lord, I will sing praise.
2 I will be careful to lead a blameless life—
Sure, you will.
when will you come to me?
I will conduct the affairs of my house
with a blameless heart.
Really?
3 I will not look with approval
on anything that is vile.
Other people’s wives were the obvious exception. Not that they were vile, but he shouldn’t have been looking at them.
I hate what faithless people do;
I will have no part in it.
You killed a guy to sleep with his wife.
4 The perverse of heart shall be far from me;
I will have nothing to do with what is evil.
Unlikely.
5 Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret,
I will put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,
I will not tolerate.
This is good though.
6 My 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.
7 No one who practices deceit
will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
will stand in my presence.
Except for… myself of course.
8 Every morning I will put to silence
all the wicked in the land;
I will cut off every evildoer
from the city of the Lord.
That would take a lot of effort.
Scripture Discussed: Psalm 101
IIWAC: Psalm 101
1 I will sing of your love and justice;
to you, Lord, I will sing praise.
2 I will be careful to lead a blameless life—
Sure, you will.
when will you come to me?
I will conduct the affairs of my house
with a blameless heart.
Really?
3 I will not look with approval
on anything that is vile.
Other people’s wives were the obvious exception. Not that they were vile, but he shouldn’t have been looking at them.
I hate what faithless people do;
I will have no part in it.
You killed a guy to sleep with his wife.
4 The perverse of heart shall be far from me;
I will have nothing to do with what is evil.
Unlikely.
5 Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret,
I will put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,
I will not tolerate.
This is good though.
6 My 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.
7 No one who practices deceit
will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
will stand in my presence.
Except for… myself of course.
8 Every morning I will put to silence
all the wicked in the land;
I will cut off every evildoer
from the city of the Lord.
That would take a lot of effort.
Scripture Discussed: Psalm 101