Salmos 103:3-13

3 El es el que perdona todas tus iniquidades, el que sana todas tus enfermedades;

4 el que rescata de la fosa tu vida, el que te corona de bondad y compasión;

5 el que colma de bienes tus años , para que tu juventud se renueve como el águila.

6 El SEÑOR hace justicia, y juicios a favor de todos los oprimidos.

7 A Moisés dio a conocer sus caminos, y a los hijos de Israel sus obras.

8 Compasivo y clemente es el SEÑOR, lento para la ira y grande en misericordia.

9 No contenderá con nosotros para siempre, ni para siempre guardará su enojo.

10 No nos ha tratado según nuestros pecados, ni nos ha pagado conforme a nuestras iniquidades.

11 Porque como están de altos los cielos sobre la tierra, así es de grande su misericordia para los que le temen.

12 Como está de lejos el oriente del occidente, así alejó de nosotros nuestras transgresiones.

13 Como un padre se compadece de sus hijos, así se compadece el SEÑOR de los que le temen.

Salmos 103:3-13 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. O, deseos