Psalms 103:1-7

1 My whole being, praise the Lord; all my being, praise his holy name.

2 My whole being, praise the Lord and do not forget all his kindnesses.

3 He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.

4 He saves my life from the grave and loads me with love and mercy.

5 He satisfies me with good things and makes me young again, like the eagle.

6 The Lord does what is right and fair for all who are wronged by others.

7 He showed his ways to Moses and his deeds to the people of Israel.

Psalms 103:1-7 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.