Salmi 103:16-22

16 se un vento gli passa sopra ei non è più, e il luogo dov’era non lo riconosce più.

17 Ma la benignità dell’Eterno dura ab eterno e in eterno, sopra quelli che lo temono, e la sua giustizia sopra i figliuoli de’ figliuoli

18 di quelli che osservano il suo patto, e si ricordano de’ suoi comandamenti per metterli in opra.

19 L’Eterno ha stabilito il suo trono ne’ cieli, e il suo regno signoreggia su tutto.

20 Benedite l’Eterno, voi suoi angeli, potenti e forti, che fate ciò ch’egli dice, ubbidendo alla voce della sua parola!

21 Benedite l’Eterno, voi tutti gli eserciti suoi, che siete suoi ministri, e fate ciò che gli piace!

22 Benedite l’Eterno, voi tutte le opere sue, in tutti i luoghi della sua signoria! Anima mia, benedici l’Eterno!

Salmi 103:16-22 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.