Psaume 103:1-6

1 De David. Mon âme, bénis l'Eternel! Que tout ce qui est en moi bénisse son saint nom!

2 Mon âme, bénis l'Eternel, Et n'oublie aucun de ses bienfaits!

3 C'est lui qui pardonne toutes tes iniquités, Qui guérit toutes tes maladies;

4 C'est lui qui délivre ta vie de la fosse, Qui te couronne de bonté et de miséricorde;

5 C'est lui qui rassasie de biens ta vieillesse, Qui te fait rajeunir comme l'aigle.

6 L'Eternel fait justice, Il fait droit à tous les opprimés.

Psaume 103:1-6 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.