Psalms 101 — Side by side (KJV, ASV, YLT, DRA)

1I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O Lord, will I sing.

1 I will sing of lovingkindness and justice: Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I sing praises.

1A Psalm of David. Kindness and judgment I sing, To Thee, O Jehovah, I sing praise.

1The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord.

2I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

2I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way: Oh when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

2I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house.

2Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

3I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

3I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me.

3I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

3Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily.

4A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

4A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will know no evil thing.

4A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not.

4For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.

5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

5Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

5I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

6Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

6Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall minister unto me.

6Mine eyes are on the faithful of the land, To dwell with me, Whoso is walking in a perfect way, he serveth me.

6Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.

7He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

7He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.

7He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes.

7I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.

8I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord.

8Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.

8At morning I cut off all the wicked of the land, To cut off from the city of Jehovah All the workers of iniquity!

8I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

9(not in this translation)

9All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me.

10(not in this translation)

10For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

11(not in this translation)

11Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.

12(not in this translation)

12My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

13(not in this translation)

13But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations.

14(not in this translation)

14Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.

15(not in this translation)

15For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof.

16(not in this translation)

16All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

17(not in this translation)

17For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.

18(not in this translation)

18He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

19(not in this translation)

19Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord:

20(not in this translation)

20Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

21(not in this translation)

21That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain:

22(not in this translation)

22That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem;

23(not in this translation)

23When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.

24(not in this translation)

24He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

25(not in this translation)

25Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

26(not in this translation)

26In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

27(not in this translation)

27They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.

28(not in this translation)

28But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

29(not in this translation)

29The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever.