Psalm 103:1-8

1 Ein Psalm Davids. Lobe den HERRN, meine Seele, und was in mir ist, seinen heiligen Namen!

2 Lobe den HERRN, meine Seele, und vergiß nicht, was er dir Gutes getan hat:

3 der dir alle deine Sünden vergibt und heilet alle deine Gebrechen,

4 der dein Leben vom Verderben erlöst, der dich krönt mit Gnade und Barmherzigkeit,

5 der deinen Mund fröhlich macht, und du wieder jung wirst wie ein Adler.

6 Der HERR schafft Gerechtigkeit und Gericht allen, die Unrecht leiden.

7 Er hat seine Wege Mose wissen lassen, die Kinder Israel sein Tun.

8 Barmherzig und gnädig ist der HERR, geduldig und von großer Güte.

Psalm 103:1-8 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.