Psalm 99–101

Yahweh Is a Holy King

99Yahweh is king; let the peoples tremble.

He sits enthroned^a between the cherubim. Let the earth shake.

²Yahweh is great in Zion,

and he is exalted over all the peoples.

³Let them praise your great and fearful name.

He is holy.

⁴And the strength of the king loves justice.^b

You have established equity;

you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

⁵Exalt Yahweh our God,

and worship at his footstool.

He is holy.

⁶Moses and Aaron were among his priests;

Samuel also was among those who called on his name.

They called to Yahweh, and he answered them.

⁷He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.

They kept his testimonies and the statute he gave to them.

⁸O Yahweh our God, you answered them.

You were a forgiving God to them,

but an avenger of their wrong deeds.

⁹Exalt Yahweh our God,

and worship at his holy mountain,

for Yahweh our God is holy.

Worship God with Joy

100A psalm of thanksgiving.^a

¹Shout in triumph to Yahweh, all the earth.

²Serve^b Yahweh with joy;

come into his presence with exultation.

³Know that Yahweh, he is God;

he made us and we are his.^c

We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

⁴Enter his gates with thanksgiving,

his courts with praise.

Give thanks to him; bless his name.

⁵For Yahweh is good; his loyal love is forever,

and his faithfulness is from generation to generation.^d

A Promise to Act with Integrity

101Of David. A psalm.^a

¹I will sing of loyal love and justice;

I will sing praises to you, O Yahweh.

²I will give attention to the way of integrity.

When will you come to me?

I will walk in the integrity of my heart

in the midst of my house.

³I will not set before my eyes

any wicked thing.

I hate the work of those who fall away;^b

it will not cling to me.

⁴A perverse heart will depart from me;

I will not know evil.

⁵One who slanders his neighbor in secret,

him I will destroy.

One haughty of eyes and arrogant^c of heart,

him I will not endure.

⁶My eyes will be on the faithful of the land,

that they may live with me.

He who walks in the way of integrity,

he shall minister to me.

⁷There will not live in the midst of my house

a worker of deceit.

One who speaks lies

will not remain^d before my eyes.

⁸Each morning,^e

I will destroy all the wicked of the land,

cutting off from the city of Yahweh all evildoers.