Psalm 101

1. LORD, I will sing, the praise of justice voicing; / Uprightness is the theme of my rejoicing. / A song of loyalty and blameless ways / To Thee I’ll raise. 

2. I’ll wisely tread the pathway of perfection. / When wilt Thou come, O LORD, for my / direction? / I’ll walk within my house with blameless heart, / From sin apart. 

3. No base and worthless thing will I have near me, / And all apostasy I hate sincerely. / Those who in secret other men defame / I’ll put to shame. 

4. The proud of eye and heart I will not suffer, / But to the faithful I will friendship offer. / The man who walks in all integrity / Shall wait on me. 

5. Deceitful men shall from my presence vanish, / For liars I will from my household banish, / And those who spread their tales of slander shall / Not with me dwell.

6. To all the nation I will justice render; / I will destroy the criminal offender, / And every day Thy city’s peace, O LORD, / Will I safeguard. Dewey Westra, 1961, & William Helder, 1980