(101) A Psalm of David.
1I will sing to you, O Lord, of mercy and judgment; I will sing a psalm,
2and I will be wise in a blameless way. When will you come to me? I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.
3I have not set before my eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors.
4A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me.
5Him that privily speaks against his neighbor, him have I driven from me: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart, —with him I have not eaten.
6My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walked in a perfect way, the same ministered to me.
7The proud doer lived not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight.
8Early did I kill all the sinners of the land, that I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity.
Text: the Septuagint in the translation of Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton (1851), revised in American English by Michael Paul Johnson (LXX2012). Public domain. The Old Testament of the Eastern Orthodox Bible is in preparation.
