What does Psalms 101:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I will set no wickeda thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me."
Verse Psalms 101:3. _I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES_] I will undertake no unjust wars; will enter into no sinful alliances; will not oppress my subjects by excessive taxation, to support...
I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES - That is, I will propose no wicked thing to be done; I will have no such object in view; I will employ no one to do that which is wrong. The margin, as the...
PSALM 101-106 Psalms 101 The Righteous King Speaketh _ 1. The character of the King (Psalms 101:1)_ 2. His righteous demands of His subjects (Psalms 101:4) A Psalm of David. He speaks as king con...
CI. THE IDEAL RULER. The main purport is clear. The ideal ruler is faithful to the high standard which he sets before himself (Psalms 101:2_ b_ - Psalms 101:4). He requires (Psalms 101:5) the same str...
WICKED THING. thing of Belial. HATE. have always hated. THE WORK: i.e. the doings, or business....
DISCOURSE: 669 INTEGRITY Psalms 101:3. _I hate the work of them that turn aside: it shall not cleave to me_. TO improve our influence for God, is our bounden duty, whatever be the station to which h...
I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES— Pleasure or displeasure, approbation or abhorrence, may be known by the look or cast of the eye. What we are pleased and delighted with, attracts and fixes...
PSALMS 101 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A King's Resolve to have a pure House and Court and Royal City. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 101:1-2 a, The Theme of Song Announced and Applied to the Conduct becoming,...
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES - literally, 'no thing of Belial' (Psal...
101:3 aside; (g-19) Elsewhere also 'apostates,' see Hosea 5:2 ....
This Ps. is the prayer of a ruler, apparently of a king. Many scholars believe that the title which ascribes its authorship to David is correct, and connect it with David's desire to have the ark brou...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE KING’S SONG PSALMS 101 JESUS SAID, "FIRST LOOK FOR THE PLACE WHERE GOD IS KING. DO THE GOOD THINGS THAT HE DOES". (MATTHEW 6:33) PSALMS 101 (This is) a psal...
I WILL SET NO..... — Mark the wisdom of the resolve in a despotic monarch, who has only to speak to effect whatever he has looked on with desire. WICKED THING. — _Thing_ (_or, word_)_ of Belial._ (S...
לֹֽא ־אָשִׁ֨ית ׀ לְ נֶ֥גֶד עֵינַ֗י דְּֽבַר ־בְּלִ֫יָּ֥עַל עֲשֹֽׂה ־סֵטִ֥ים שָׂנֵ֑אתִי לֹ֖א יִדְבַּ֣ק בִּֽי׃...
Psalms 101:1 THE contents of this psalm go far towards confirming the correctness of the superscription in ascribing it to David, as Ewald acknowledges. To call it an ideal description of a Jewish kin...
MY RIGHTEOUS PURPOSE Psalms 101:1 This psalm, as the title indicates, was composed by David, probably at the commencement of his reign. It contains a number of resolutions upon which he was prepared...
A fine sense of the fitness of things is exhibited by the editor of the psalter in placing this psalm here. Following immediately upon the songs of the enthroned Jehovah, in which there has been perpe...
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate (c) the work of them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me. (c) He shows that magistrates do not do their duties, unless they are enemies to...
_Turn not. We first abandon God, but must humbly beg for grace. (Worthington)_...
Nothing can be more beautiful, considered as descriptive of the person and work of Jesus, in the days of his flesh, than what is here said. But such views of perfection, as they are nowhere to be foun...
3_I will not set a wicked thing before my eyes _After having protested, that in leading a private life, he would practice virtue and righteousness, even as it becomes good princes to begin with this,...
Psalms 101 states the principles on which the King will govern His house and the land when He takes the kingdom in the name of Jehovah. Psalms 93 is the thesis, Jehovah reigns: the rage of men, the su...
I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES, Either the eyes of the body, which are the inlets of lust and are easily caught with objects that inflame the heart, and should be turned aside from behold...
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me. Ver. 3. I will set no wicked thing (Heb. thing of Belial) before mine eyes] That is,...
_I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes_ Namely, to look upon it with approbation, or design to practise, countenance, or tolerate it. If any ungodly or unjust thing be suggested to me, whatsoeve...
THE PRINCIPLES OF RIGHT GOVERNMENT. A psalm of David, in which he set forth the guiding rules of his life, especially those of his reign, showing, at the same time, his appreciation of God's mercy to...
WICKED THING: _ Heb._ thing of Belial...
BEFORE MINE EYES, to wit, to look upon it with deliberation and design, or with desire and delight, as this phrase here and elsewhere implies. If any ungodly or unjust thing shall be suggested to me,...
Psalms 101:3 set H7896 (H8799) nothing H1697 wicked H1100 eyes H5869 hate H8130 (H8804) work H6213 (H8800) away H7750 cling H1692 (H8799) set - Psalms 18:20-23, Psalms 26:4-5, Psalms 39:1
Psalms 101:1. The last Psalm was a Hymn of Thanksgiving, this one is a Psalm of Thanksgiving. I suppose it to have been written by David just when he assumed the throne, when he was about to become ki...
CONTENTS: David's vow to God when he took upon him the charge of the kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The believer should resolve to walk by the rules of Christian prudence and in the wa...
TITLE. _A psalm of David._ All the Versions agree with the Hebrew in this title. Psalms 101:3. _I hate the work of them that turn aside;_ a Hebrew phrase for apostasy to idolatry. Instead of going up...
I will sing of mercy and judgment. ONE MAN IN TWO CHARACTERS This psalm depicts one man in two characters, one comparatively good, the other comparatively evil. Such a man is a fair type of the race...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 101:1. This is a royal psalm about the place of the Davidic monarchy in God’s plan for his people. It explains for David and his heirs the ideal kind of ruler they should be...
INTRODUCTION According to the superscription, this Psalm was composed by David. Three different times in his life have been suggested as the occasion to which the Psalm refers. First, when, upon the d...
EXPOSITION Tins psalm describes the rightful conduct and proper principles of action of an Israelite king. It is regarded by some as a portrait of an ideal ruler, dramatically put into his mouth; by...
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Psalms 101:1-8; Psalms 101:1-8 is a psalm of David, and David declares in the first verse, I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing ...
1 John 2:19; 1 Kings 21:13; 1 Kings 21:2; 1 Samuel 12:20; 1 Samuel 12:21; 1 Samuel 15:11; 2 Peter 2:21; 2 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 11:3;...