Psalms 103:24-34

24 quam magnificata sunt opera tua Domine omnia in sapientia fecisti impleta est terra possessione tua
25 hoc mare magnum et spatiosum *manibus; illic reptilia quorum non est numerus animalia pusilla cum magnis
26 illic naves pertransibunt draco iste quem formasti ad inludendum ei
27 omnia a te expectant ut des illis escam in tempore
28 dante te illis colligent aperiente te manum tuam omnia implebuntur bonitate
29 avertente autem te faciem turbabuntur auferes spiritum eorum et deficient et in pulverem suum revertentur
30 emittes spiritum tuum et creabuntur et renovabis faciem terrae
31 sit gloria Domini in saeculum laetabitur Dominus in operibus suis
32 qui respicit terram et facit eam tremere qui tangit montes et fumigant
33 cantabo Domino in vita mea psallam Deo meo quamdiu sum
34 iucundum sit ei eloquium meum ego vero delectabor in Domino

Psalms 103:24-34 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.

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