Salmos 103:1-8

1 Bendize, ó minha alma, ao Senhor, e tudo o que há em mim bendiga o seu santo nome.

2 Bendize, ó minha alma, ao Senhor, e não te esqueças de nenhum dos seus benefícios.

3 É ele quem perdoa todas as tuas iniqüidades, quem sara todas as tuas enfermidades,

4 quem redime a tua vida da cova, quem te coroa de benignidade e de misericórdia,

5 quem te supre de todo o bem, de sorte que a tua mocidade se renova como a da águia.

6 O Senhor executa atos de justiça, e juízo a favor de todos os oprimidos.

7 Fez notórios os seus caminhos a Moisés, e os seus feitos aos filhos de Israel.

8 Compassivo e misericordioso é o Senhor; tardio em irar-se e grande em benignidade.

Salmos 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.