Psalms 101:1
I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto you, O LORD, will I sing.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
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Psalms 51:14Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
Psalms 89:1I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 97:8Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, O LORD.
Psalms 136:10To him that stroke Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures for ever:
Micah 6:8He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Romans 9:22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to 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 →