Psalms 100 (DRB)

Chapter Text

100:1 A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, O Lord: I will sing,

100:2 And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

100:3 I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities.

100:4 The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know.

100:5 The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

100:6 My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me.

100:7 He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.

100:8 In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "mercy", "iniquities", "psalm", "david", "himself", "judgment", and "sing". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "mercy", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The local DRB text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "faith" and "mercy" carries the first interpretive weight. In Psalms context, the local focus is worship, trust, the LORD's kingship, and covenant mercy.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "faith" and "mercy" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.