Psalm 103:1-11

1 Salmo 103
Salmo de David.
Que todo lo que soy alabe al Señor
;
con todo el corazón alabaré su santo nombre.

2 Que todo lo que soy alabe al Señor
;
que nunca olvide todas las cosas buenas que hace por mí.

3 Él perdona todos mis pecados
y sana todas mis enfermedades.

4 Me redime de la muerte
y me corona de amor y tiernas misericordias.

5 Colma mi vida de cosas buenas;
¡mi juventud se renueva como la del águila!

6 El Señor
da rectitud
y hace justicia a los que son tratados injustamente.

7 Dio a conocer su carácter a Moisés
y sus obras al pueblo de Israel.

8 El Señor
es compasivo y misericordioso,
lento para enojarse y está lleno de amor inagotable.

9 No nos reprenderá todo el tiempo,
ni seguirá enojado para siempre.

10 No nos castiga por todos nuestros pecados;
no nos trata con la severidad que merecemos.

11 Pues su amor inagotable hacia los que le temen
es tan inmenso como la altura de los cielos sobre la tierra.

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.