Psalms 101:1
I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To thee, O LORD, I will sing praises.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 51:14Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation. [And] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Psalms 89:1I will sing of the loving kindness of LORD forever. With my mouth I will make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 97:8Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O LORD.
Psalms 136:10to him who smote Egypt in their firstborn, for his loving kindness [is] forever,
Micah 6:8He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Romans 9:22And if God, wanting to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 101:1
David was certainly the penman of this psalm, and it has in it the genuine spirit of the man after God's own heart; it is a solemn vow which he made to God when he took upon him the charge of a family and of the kingdom. Whether it was penned when he entered upon the government, immediately after the death of Saul (as some think), or when he began to reign over all Israel, and brought up the ark to the city of David (as others think), is not material; it is an excellent plan or model for the good government of a… Read the whole commentary →