Psalms 101:3

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
set	אָשִׁ֨ית 'a.Shit	H7896	to place (in a very wide application) · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common singular
wicked	בְּלִ֫יָּ֥עַל be.Li.Ya.'al	H1100	without profit · noun, common masculine singular absolute
thing	דְּֽבַר de.var-	H1697	a word · noun, common masculine singular construct
eyes	עֵינַ֗י 'ei.Nai	H5869	an eye (literally or figuratively) · noun, common feminine dual construct + pronominal suffix
hate	שָׂנֵ֑אתִי sa.Ne.ti	H8130	to hate (personally) · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common singular
work	עֲשֹֽׂה 'a.soh-	H6213	to do or make · verb, qal infinitive construct
aside	שׂוּט sûwṭ	H7750	to detrude
cleave	יִדְבַּ֣ק yid.Bak	H1692	properly · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Job 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
James 1:13-15 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
2 Samuel 11:2-3 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he…
Proverbs 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Matthew 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Psalms 40:4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox,…

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 101:1–end

David here cuts out to himself and others a pattern both of a good magistrate and a good master of a family; and, if these were careful to discharge the duty of their place, it would contribute very much to a universal reformation. Observe, I. The chosen subject of the psalm (Psa 101:1): I will sing of mercy and judgment, that is, 1. Of God's mercy and judgment, and then it looks back upon the dispensations of Providence concerning David since he was first anointed to be king, during which time he had met with many a rebuke and much hardship on the one hand, and yet, on the other hand, had had many wonderful deliverances wrought for him and favours bestowed upon him; of these he will sing un…

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John Gill on Psalms 101:3

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 beholding vanity; or the eyes of the mind; so the Targum, "I will not propose to my heart;'' or, as Kimchi, "in my thought'', that is, I will not set up an evil thing in my imagination, to dwell upon in my thoughts, and take delight and pleasure in meditating upon it; or set it before me, to imitate as a pattern, to work by, and copy after: Christ did not so; he set the Lord always before him, Psalm 16:8, not anything of Belial (k) or Satan, as the phrase here may be rendered; no, he always bid Sa…

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John Calvin on Psalms 101:1-5

Psalm 101:1-5 A Psalm of David. 1. I will sing of mercy and of judgment: unto thee, O Jehovah! will I sing Psalm 2. I will behave myself prudently in a perfect way, till thou comest to me: [127] I will walk in the integrity of my heart in the midst of thy house. 3. I will not set a wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work [128] of those who turn aside; it shall not adhere to me. 4. The perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know evil [129] 5. Whoso slandereth his neighbor in secret, him will I:destroy: the man whose eyes are lofty, and whose heart is wide, I cannot endure. 1 I will sing of mercy and of judgment What David here says concerning singing must be understood by the…

The Church Fathers

I set no unjust thing before my eyes. I put nothing before the Lord, nor did I consent to iniquity; but I was wholly turned to God. I have hated those who commit transgressions. Whether it was my father, or my mother, or brother, or sister, or friend: nevertheless, if he had turned aside from the fear of the Lord, I held him in hatred, and I did not approach him at all. I did not set kinship or friendship before devotion to God.
— Jerome, Homily 27, on Psalm 100

"I set no wicked thing before my eyes" (ver. 3). ...I did love no wicked thing. And he explaineth this same wicked thing: "I hated them that do unfaithfulness." Attend, my brethren. If ye walk with Christ in the midst of His house, that is, if either in your heart ye have a good repose, or in the Church herself proceed on a good journey in the way of godliness; ye ought not to hate those unfaithful only who are without, but whomsoever also ye may have found within. Who are the unfaithful? They who hate the law of God; who hear, and do it not, are called unfaithful. Hate the doers of unfaithfulness, repel them from thee. But thou shouldest hate the unfaithful, not men: one man who is unfaithful, hath, ye see, two names, man, and unfaithful: God made him man, he made himself unfaithful; love in him what God made, persecute in him what he made himself. For when thou shalt have persecuted his unfaithfulness, thou killest the work of man, and freest the work of God. "I hated the doers of unfaithfulness."
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 101

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Backsliding · Hateful to saints — Hateful to saints
Chastisement · FROM GOD — FROM GOD
Eye, The · Not evil thing to be set before — Not evil thing to be set before
Hatred · Against iniquity, justified — Against iniquity, justified
Righteousness · FRUITS OF — FRUITS OF

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 101:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 101:1–end

John Gill on Psalms 101:3

John Calvin on Psalms 101:1-5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 101:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 101:1–end

John Gill on Psalms 101:3

John Calvin on Psalms 101:1-5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 101:2

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 101:3