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Psalm 101 JPS Tanakh (1917)

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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1917
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (2)

1 A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and justice; unto Thee, O LORD, will I sing praises. 2 I will give heed unto the way of integrity; Oh when wilt Thou come unto me? I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart. 3 I will set no base thing before mine eyes; I hate the doing of things crooked; it shall not cleave unto me. 4 A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know no evil thing. 5 Whoso slandereth his neighbour in secret, him will I destroy; whoso is haughty of eye and proud of heart, him will I not suffer. 6 Mine eyes are upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he that walketh in a way of integrity, he shall minister unto me. 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house; he that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes. 8 Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the LORD.

Cross references (8)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 89:1; Psalm 71:22–23; Revelation 19:1–3; Psalm 145:7; Psalm 51:14
  2. 2 Psalm 119:106; 1 Kings 9:4; 1 Timothy 3:4–5; Psalm 40:17; Psalm 119:115
  3. 3 Psalm 119:37; Job 31:1; James 1:13–15; 2 Samuel 11:2–3; Proverbs 6:25
  4. 4 Proverbs 11:20; 2 Corinthians 6:14–16; Proverbs 8:13; Psalm 119:115; Matthew 7:23
  5. 5 Psalm 15:3; Psalm 18:27; 1 Corinthians 5:11; Luke 18:14; Obadiah 3–4
  6. 6 Psalm 119:63; Luke 12:43–44; Revelation 21:3; John 12:26; Psalm 119:1–3
  7. 7 Acts 5:1–10; 2 Samuel 4:10–12; Proverbs 29:12; Psalm 52:2; Acts 1:16–20
  8. 8 Psalm 75:10; Jeremiah 21:12; Proverbs 16:12; Psalm 48:8; Revelation 22:14–15

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm C)

    The title of this Psalm is, "A Psalm of confession." The verses are few, but big with great subjects; may the seed bring forth within your hearts, the barn be prepared for the Lord's harvest. 3. "Jubilate," therefore, "unto the Lord, all ye lands" (ver. 1). This Psalm giveth this exhortation to us, that we jubilate unto the Lord.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 101:1 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book IX, Chapters XI–XII)

    The boy then being restrained from weeping, Evodius took up the Psalter, and began to sing--the whole house responding--the Psalm, "I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto Thee, O Lord." But when they heard what we were doing, many brethren and religious women came together; and whilst they whose office it was were, according to custom, making ready for …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 101:1 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XX, Chapters 6–7)

    And therefore it is written in the psalm, "I will sing of mercy and of judgment: unto Thee, O Lord, will I sing." And of this judgment He went on to say, "And hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man." Here He shows that He will come to judge in that flesh …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  4. Quotes verse 101:1 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon XXII)

    But He came first to impart mercy, that He might afterwards exercise judgment, to whom it is said, "I will sing unto Thee O Lord, of mercy and judgment." He gave then remission of sins to those who believed in Him, He would not even take account with them of past reckonings.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)