Psa 101 | EE | STEP | This is a psalm of David. I will sing to you, LORD. I will sing about your kind love and justice.

Psalms 101

The King’s Song

This is a psalm of David.

1 I will sing to you, LORD.

I will sing about your kind love and justice. ^{▼▼101:1 Verse 1: ‘Kind love’ is a special Bible word. It is the love that God has for his people. It means that he will not stop loving them. ‘Justice’ is a word that means ‘being fair.’}

2 I will be careful.

Then nobody can say that I have done wrong.

When will you LORD come to me?

Where I rule, I will do nothing that is wrong.

3 I will not let any wicked people be with me.

I really do not like what wicked people do.

They will not come near to me.

4 People with wicked ideas will be far from me.

I will not mix with them.

5 I will destroy anyone that says bad things about people in secret.

I will send away people that have proud eyes and hearts. ^{▼▼101:5 Verse 5: ‘In secret’ means ‘in a secret place’, so few people know about it. The people David (or the king) did not like had wicked ideas. They talked about these ideas where only a few people could hear them. Also, they had proud eyes and hearts. ‘Proud’ means that you ‘think that you are more important than you really are.’ A proud heart thought this. Proud eyes looked at other people as if only the proud eyes were important.}

6 My eyes will look at people who obey the LORD.

They will be with me in my work.

My servants will be people that do nothing wrong.

7 People that are not honest will not stay with me.

People that do not say what is true will not remain with me.

8 Every morning I will destroy people that are wicked in my country.

Nobody that is wicked will remain in the city of the LORD. ^{▼▼101:8 Verse 8: ‘Every morning’ suggests that each day David judged bad people. Judged means ‘decided whether they were bad or not.’ If they were bad, David destroyed them. The word ‘destroy’ in verses 5 and 9 in Hebrew really means ‘made quiet.’ This may mean that he asked his servants to kill them. Or just to stop them talking. We do not know. But they did not stay ‘in the city of the LORD’, which was Jerusalem.}