Psalms 103:14-22

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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Psalms 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

Cross References 20

1. Psalms 78:39
2. Psalms 90:5
3. See Job 14:2
4. Isaiah 40:7
5. Psalms 37:36
6. See Job 7:10
7. Psalms 25:6
8. [See ver. 11 above]
9. Exodus 20:5, 6
10. Deuteronomy 7:9
11. Psalms 19:8
12. Psalms 11:4; Psalms 93:2
13. Psalms 47:2; Daniel 4:17
14. Psalms 148:2; [Luke 2:13]
15. Psalms 78:25
16. Matthew 6:10
17. Genesis 32:2; Joshua 5:14; 1 Kings 22:19
18. Psalms 104:4; Daniel 7:10; Hebrews 1:14
19. Psalms 145:10
20. ver. 1, 2

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or knows how we are formed

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