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Psalms 101:8

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

Psalms 101:8 — KJV

Theological / Devotional

Early destroy. No evil will be allowed to persist. At its first appearance, it will be destroyed.

City of the Lord. Jerusalem, David’s capital. If a nation’s capital is morally clean, the example thus set will probably be followed in the nation.

Surely the high resolutions of this psalm, if kept, would make a king worthy of David’s praise as expressed in 2 Sam. 23:3, 4.

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