Psalms 103:1-10

1 ¹Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

2 ²Bless the LORD, O my soul, and ³forget not all his benefits,

3 who ⁴forgives all your iniquity, who ⁵heals all your diseases,

4 who ⁶redeems your life from the pit, who ⁷crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

5 who ⁸satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like ⁹the eagle's.

6 The LORD works ¹⁰righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.

7 He made known his ¹¹ways to Moses, his ¹²acts to the people of Israel.

8 The LORD is ¹³merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

9 ¹⁴He will not always chide, nor will he ¹⁵keep his anger forever.

10 He does not deal with us ¹⁶according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.

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Psalms 103:1-10 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