Psalm 101:8

Translations

Modern

Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.

Traditional

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord.

Literal

At morning I cut off all the wicked of the land, to cut off from the city of YHWH all workers of iniquity!

Latin

In matutino interficiebam omnes peccatores terræ, ut disperderem de civitate Domini omnes operantes iniquitatem.

Original

Hebrew

English

Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.

Notes

Psalms 101:7–8

The psalmist promises to remove all evil from his house and the city of the Lord, which represents the entire kingdom.

Psalms 101:1–8

This song of praise expresses a commitment to live with integrity and to avoid evil. Jesus meets this ideal.

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Psalm 75:10
“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
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O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
Proverbs 16:12
Wicked behavior is detestable for kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.
Revelation 22:14–15
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
Psalm 48:8
As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah
Proverbs 20:26
A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
Psalm 46:4
There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
Proverbs 20:8
A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
Revelation 21:27
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Psalm 48:2
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
Hosea 9:3
They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Micah 3:9
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

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Psalm 101:8

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