Psalm 101:1
New International Version
Of David. A psalm. I will sing of your love and justice; to you, LORD, I will sing praise.

New Living Translation
I will sing of your love and justice, LORD. I will praise you with songs.

English Standard Version
I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music.

Berean Standard Bible
A Psalm of David. I will sing of Your loving devotion and justice; to You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

King James Bible
A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

New King James Version
A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and justice; To You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

New American Standard Bible
A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and justice; To You, LORD, I will sing praises.

NASB 1995
A Psalm of David. I will sing of lovingkindness and justice, To You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

NASB 1977
I Will sing of lovingkindness and justice, To Thee, O LORD, I will sing praises.

Legacy Standard Bible
Of David. A Psalm. I will sing of lovingkindness and justice, To You, O Yahweh, I will sing praises.

Amplified Bible
A Psalm of David. I will sing of [steadfast] lovingkindness and justice; To You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

Christian Standard Bible
A psalm of David. I will sing of faithful love and justice; I will sing praise to you, LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A Davidic psalm. I will sing of faithful love and justice; I will sing praise to You, LORD.

American Standard Version
A Psalm of David. I will sing of lovingkindness and justice: Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I sing praises.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I shall sing grace and judgment and I shall glorify you, LORD JEHOVAH!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A Psalm of David. I will sing to thee, O Lord, of mercy and judgment; I will sing a psalm,

Contemporary English Version
I will sing to you, LORD! I will celebrate your kindness and your justice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, O Lord: I will sing,

English Revised Version
A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing praises.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[A psalm by David.] I will sing about mercy and justice. O LORD, I will make music to praise you.

Good News Translation
My song is about loyalty and justice, and I sing it to you, O LORD.

International Standard Version
I will sing about gracious love and justice; LORD, I will sing praise to you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and justice; Unto Thee, O LORD, will I sing praises.

Literal Standard Version
A PSALM OF DAVID. I sing kindness and judgment, | To You, O YHWH, I sing praise.

Majority Standard Bible
A Psalm of David. I will sing of Your loving devotion and justice; to You, O LORD, I will sing praises.

New American Bible
A psalm of David. I sing of mercy and justice; to you, LORD, I sing praise.

NET Bible
A psalm of David. I will sing about loyalty and justice! To you, O LORD, I will sing praises!

New Revised Standard Version
I will sing of loyalty and of justice; to you, O LORD, I will sing.

New Heart English Bible
[A Psalm by David.] I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, LORD, I will sing praises.

Webster's Bible Translation
A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and judgment: to thee, O LORD, will I sing.

World English Bible
A Psalm by David. I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.

Young's Literal Translation
A Psalm of David. Kindness and judgment I sing, To Thee, O Jehovah, I sing praise.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
I will Set No Worthless Thing Before My Eyes
1A Psalm of David. I will sing of Your loving devotion and justice; to You, O LORD, I will sing praises. 2I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.…

Cross References
Psalm 37:30
The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

Psalm 51:14
Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

Psalm 59:16
But I will sing of Your strength and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning. For You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.

Psalm 89:1
I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 145:7
They will extol the fame of Your abundant goodness and sing joyfully of Your righteousness.


Treasury of Scripture

I will sing of mercy and judgment: to you, O LORD, will I sing.

I will sing

Psalm 89:1
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 97:8
Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.

Psalm 103:6-8
The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed…

unto thee

Psalm 71:22,23
I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel…

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Psalm 101
1. David makes a vow and profession of godliness.














(1) Mercy and judgment--or, as some render, grace and right--are the especially requisite attributes of a good monarch, or of magistrates generally. (See Matthew 23:23, where the failure to practise them is charged on the ruling class in Judaea at that time, though, of course, also required in the conduct of every man; Micah 6:8.) Here, no doubt, as almost all commentators have seen, they are first regarded ideally as attributes of the Divine King.

"And earthly power doth then show likest God's,

When mercy seasons justice."

Will I sing.--Better, will I play.

On the question of the connection of this verse with the rest of the psalm, see Introduction.

Verse 1. - I will sing of mercy and judgment. The writer does not mean that he is about, in this present psalm, to sing of God's mercy and justice, but that he will make it one of the rules of his life to do so. Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing; or, "will I make melody" (Cheyne, Kay).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
A Psalm
מִ֫זְמ֥וֹר (miz·mō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4210: Instrumental music, a poem set to notes

of David.
לְדָוִ֗ד (lə·ḏā·wiḏ)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

I will sing
אָשִׁ֑ירָה (’ā·šî·rāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 7891: To sing

of [Your] loving devotion
חֶֽסֶד־ (ḥe·seḏ-)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2617: Kindness, piety, reproof, beauty

and justice;
וּמִשְׁפָּ֥ט (ū·miš·pāṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

to You,
לְךָ֖ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

O LORD,
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

I will sing praise.
אֲזַמֵּֽרָה׃ (’ă·zam·mê·rāh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 2167: Play, to make music, celebrate in song and music


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