Psalms 103:1-6

Praise for the LORD'S Mercies.

A Psalm of David.

1 ¹Bless the LORD, O my soul, And all that is within me, bless His ²holy name.

2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, And ³forget none * of His benefits;

3 Who ⁴pardons all your iniquities, Who ⁵heals all your diseases;

4 Who ⁶redeems your life from the pit, Who ⁷crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;

5 Who ⁸satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is ⁹renewed like the eagle.

6 The LORD ¹⁰performs righteous deeds And judgments for all who are ¹¹oppressed.

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Psalms 103:1-6 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