Psalm 103:1-11

1 Bendice, alma mía, al SEÑOR, y bendiga todo mi ser su santo nombre.

2 Bendice, alma mía, al SEÑOR, y no olvides ninguno de sus beneficios.

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.

Psalm 103:1-11 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