Psalms 103:20-21

20 Bless the LORD, you ¹His angels, ²Mighty in strength, who ³perform His word, ⁴Obeying the voice of His word!

21 Bless the LORD, all you ⁵His hosts, You ⁶who serve Him, doing His will.

Psalms 103:20-21 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.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 148:2
• 2. Psalms 29:1; Psalms 78:25
• 3. Matthew 6:10
• 4. Psalms 91:11; Hebrews 1:14
• 5. 1 Kings 22:19; Nehemiah 9:6; Psalms 148:2; Luke 2:13
• 6. Psalms 104:4