What does Psalms Chapter 100 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Future singing and understanding differ from recalled household innocence. Faithful companions and service are named without invented official positions. The final past put-to-death statement is retained without invented trial procedure.

Chapter breakdown

Misericordiam et judicium is the incipit; the heading says the prophet's example exhorts mercy and justice. David's psalm says he will sing mercy and judgment to the Lord and understand in the unspotted way when God comes. He walked in heart's innocence in his house. The separate note explains applying mind and endeavor to know and follow perfect commandments, relying on God's coming by grace instead of own strength.

He will set no unjust thing before eyes and hated iniquity workers. A perverse heart did not cleave and he would not know the malignant who turned away. He persecuted the private detractor of a neighbor and would not eat with proud eye and insatiable heart. His eyes were on faithful people to sit with him and the perfect-way walker served him. These are not identified as particular counselors, officials or flatterers.

The pride-worker shall not dwell in his house; unjust speakers did not prosper before his eyes. The final verse says in the morning he put to death all the land's wicked to cut iniquity workers from the Lord's city. Put to death is retained, rather than softened to administrative cleanup or changed into an each-morning future policy. The chapter supplies neither a particular trial nor evidence of legal procedures, so no invented lawful-process certification or universal constitutional doctrine is attached.

The story inside

Opening: Future singing and understanding differ from recalled household innocence. Development: Faithful companions and service are named without invented official positions. Conclusion: The final past put-to-death statement is retained without invented trial procedure.

Lessons worth keeping

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Future singing and understanding differ from recalled household innocence.
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Faithful companions and service are named without invented official positions.
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The final past put-to-death statement is retained without invented trial procedure.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 63998–64002
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.
Lines 64015–64020
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.
Lines 64022–64026
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.