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Psalm 101:8

Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the LORD’s city.

6My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.
7He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
8Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the LORD’s city.
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The vow to “destroy all the wicked” can unsettle a reader: a king pledges repeated, violent judgment within the city that belongs to YHWH.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 75:10I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.Both use the language of cutting off to describe judgment against the wicked.
Jeremiah 21:12House of David, the LORD says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, …Both connect morning with a ruler’s duty to confront wrongdoing; Jeremiah specifies rescuing those who have been robbed.
Proverbs 16:12It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.Both treat wickedness as incompatible with righteous rule, with Proverbs stressing the king’s own conduct.
Psalm 45:7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.Both express opposition to wickedness, though Psalm 101 states that opposition as a vow of destruction.
Proverbs 20:26A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.Both portray a king removing the wicked through severe judgment, using violent language.
Revelation 22:14–15Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.Both connect life in God’s city with moral conduct, though Psalm 101 describes removal and Revelation describes entry.
Revelation 21:27There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.Both exclude wrongdoing from God’s city, and Psalm 101’s surrounding verses also name falsehood.
Psalm 48:8As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the LORD of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.Both name the city as belonging to the LORD; Psalm 48 also declares that God will establish it forever.
Proverbs 20:8A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.Both depict royal judgment directed against evil, with the king taking an active role.
Psalm 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.Both speak of a city belonging to God, though one describes judgment and the other gladness.
Micah 3:9Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity,Both concern rulers and justice, contrasting a king’s vow against wrongdoing with rulers who pervert equity.
Hosea 9:3They won’t dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.Both speak of exclusion from a place belonging to the LORD, though Hosea names Ephraim’s displacement.
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Encouragement

This royal vow gives no permission for private violence. Its severity reflects a ruler’s duty to confront wrongdoing under God’s authority. The city belongs to YHWH.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).