1 I will sing of your love and justice;
to you, LORD, I will sing praise.
to you, LORD, I will sing praise.
2 I will be careful to lead a blameless life—
when will you come to me?
I will conduct the affairs of my house
with a blameless heart.
with a blameless heart.
3 I will not look with approval
on anything that is vile.
I hate what faithless people do;
I will have no part in it.
I will have no part in it.
4 The perverse of heart shall be far from me;
I will have nothing to do with what is evil.
5 Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret,
I will put to silence;
I will put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,
I will not tolerate.
I will not tolerate.
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.
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.
will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
will stand in my presence.
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.
all the wicked in the land;
I will cut off every evildoer
from the city of the LORD.
What a promise the psalmist is making to the Lord! I love how he says 'I WILL' or 'I WILL NOT'. He is determined to live rightly before the Lord and not to allow wickedness in his house. This is a powerful psalm and I would love to have heard the music which accompanied it. David loved the Lord and in this psalm he wants to prove his love by his declarations. It is a beautiful psalm to start the day. Start your day determined to live for the Lord, just like David.
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