A Psalm by David. I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
Parallel translations
- KJV I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
- BSB A Psalm of David. I will sing of Your loving devotion and justice; to You, O LORD, I will sing praises.
- NKJV I will sing of mercy and justice; To You, O Lord, I will sing praises.
- NASB I will sing of mercy and justice; To You, Lord, I will sing praises.
- NLT I will sing of your love and justice, Lord. I will praise you with songs.
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Quick answer
David resolves to sing of God's loving kindness and justice. He celebrates the very qualities he aims to imitate as king.
Overview
Psalm 101 is David's pledge to rule with integrity, beginning by praising God's steadfast love and justice. By singing of these, he commits to reflecting them in his own reign. This points to Christ, the true King in whom mercy and justice are perfectly joined.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 89:1A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
- Ps 71:22–23I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
- Ps 145:7They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.
- Rev 19:1–3After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
- Ps 51:14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
- Rom 9:15–18For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- Ps 103:6–8Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.
- Rev 15:3–4They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Ps 136:10–22To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- Ps 97:8Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of your judgments, Yahweh.
- Rom 11:22See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
- Rom 9:22–23What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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