Psalm 103:10

10 Er handelt nicht mit uns nach unsern Sünden und vergilt uns nicht nach unsrer Missetat.

Psalm 103:10 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 103:10

He hath not dealt with us after our sins
God deals with his people, and deals with them roundly, for their sins, reproving them by his Spirit, and by his ministers, and by his chastising rod; but not after or according to them, or as they deserve; in this David acknowledges himself and other saints, with whom he joins, to be sinners, to have been guilty of sins, as none live without them; and that God had taken notice of them, and chastised them for them; but in great moderation, and not according to the due demerit of them:

nor rewarded us according to our iniquities;
had he, if every transgression had received its just recompence of reward, they must have been sent to hell; the lake burning with fire and brimstone must have been their portion; the wages of sin is eternal death: the reason why God deals not with nor rewards his people according to the due desert of their sins is because Christ has bore them, and the chastisement of them, and made satisfaction to divine justice for them; see ( Ezra 9:13 ) .

Psalm 103:10 In-Context

8 Barmherzig und gnädig ist der HERR, geduldig und von großer Güte.
9 Er wird nicht immer hadern noch ewiglich Zorn halten.
10 Er handelt nicht mit uns nach unsern Sünden und vergilt uns nicht nach unsrer Missetat.
11 Denn so hoch der Himmel über der Erde ist, läßt er seine Gnade walten über die, so ihn fürchten.
12 So ferne der Morgen ist vom Abend, läßt er unsre Übertretungen von uns sein.
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