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Psalm 103:14-22

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14 For he knows our frame; [a] he 1remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like 2grass; he flourishes like 3a flower of the field;
16 for 4the wind passes over it, and 5it is gone, and 6its place knows it no more.
17 But 7the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on 8those who fear him, and his righteousness to 9children’s children,
18 to those who 10keep his covenant and 11remember to do his commandments.
19 The Lord has 12established his throne in the heavens, and his 13kingdom rules over all.
20 Bless the Lord, O you 14his angels, you 15mighty ones who 16do his word, obeying the voice of his word!
21 Bless the Lord, all his 17hosts, his 18ministers, who do his will!
22 19Bless the Lord, all his works, in all places of his dominion. 20Bless the Lord, O my soul!
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Psalm 103:14-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 103

\\<>\\. The Targum adds, ``spoken in prophecy,'' as doubtless it was, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Some think it was written by David, after a fit of illness, and his recovery from it, since he speaks of his diseases being healed, and his youth renewed; for which reason the Syriac interpreter suggests it was written in his old age; for he makes the subject of the psalm to be, ``concerning coldness which prevailed upon him in old age;'' but rather he wrote it when his heart was warm with a sense of the love of God, and spiritual blessings of grace flowing from thence; and in it celebrates and sings the benefits of New Testament times; and it is a psalm suitable to be sung by every believer, under a quick sense of divine favours: wherefore the above interpreter better adds, ``also an instruction and thanksgiving by men of God;'' whom the psalmist may very well be thought to personate, even in Gospel times; and much rather than the Jews in captivity, as Kimchi thinks.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 20

  • 1. 103:14 Ps. 78:39
  • 2. 103:15 Ps. 90:5
  • 3. 103:15 See Job 14:2
  • 4. 103:16 Isa. 40:7
  • 5. 103:16 Ps. 37:36
  • 6. 103:16 See Job 7:10
  • 7. 103:17 Ps. 25:6
  • 8. 103:17 [See ver. 11 above]
  • 9. 103:17 Ex. 20:5, 6
  • 10. 103:18 Deut. 7:9
  • 11. 103:18 Ps. 19:8
  • 12. 103:19 Ps. 11:4; 93:2
  • 13. 103:19 Ps. 47:2; Dan. 4:17
  • 14. 103:20 Ps. 148:2; [Luke 2:13]
  • 15. 103:20 Ps. 78:25
  • 16. 103:20 Matt. 6:10
  • 17. 103:21 Gen. 32:2; Josh. 5:14; 1 Kgs. 22:19
  • 18. 103:21 Ps. 104:4; Dan. 7:10; Heb. 1:14
  • 19. 103:22 Ps. 145:10
  • 20. 103:22 ver. 1, 2

Footnotes 1

  • [a] 103:14 Or 'knows how we are formed'
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2025

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