Psalms 101:1
Of lovingkindness and of justice, will I sing! Unto thee, O Yahweh, will I touch the strings!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 51:14Rescue me from shed-blood, O God, the God of my salvation, My tongue should shout thy righteousness;
Psalms 89:1The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, age-abidingly will I sing, To generation after generation, will I make known thy faithfulness with my mouth.
Psalms 97:8Zion, hath heard and rejoiced, And the daughters of Judah, have exulted, Because of thy righteous decisions, O Yahweh:
Psalms 136:10To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.
Micah 6:8He hath told thee, O son of earth, what is good,—what then is, Yahweh, seeking of thee, but, to do justice, to delight in lovingkindness, and humbly to walk with thy God?
Romans 9:22And, if God—wishing to shew his anger and to make known his power—bare, in much patience, with vessels of anger already fitted 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 →