Psaume 103:2-12

2 Mon âme, bénis l'Éternel, et n'oublie aucun de ses bienfaits!

3 C'est lui qui pardonne toutes tes iniquités; qui guérit toutes tes infirmités;

4 Qui retire ta vie de la fosse; qui te couronne de bonté et de compassion;

5 Qui rassasie ta bouche de biens, tellement que ta jeunesse est renouvelée comme celle de l'aigle.

6 L'Éternel fait justice et droit à tous ceux qui sont opprimés.

7 Il a fait connaître ses voies à Moïse, et ses exploits aux enfants d'Israël.

8 L'Éternel est compatissant et miséricordieux; lent à la colère et abondant en grâce.

9 Il ne conteste pas à perpétuité, et ne garde pas sa colère à toujours.

10 Il ne nous a pas fait selon nos péchés, et ne nous a pas rendu selon nos iniquités.

11 Car autant les cieux sont élevés au-dessus de la terre, autant sa bonté est grande sur ceux qui le craignent.

12 Il a éloigné de nous nos iniquités, autant que l'orient est éloigné de l'occident.

Psaume 103:2-12 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.