Salmos 103:1-10

1 BENDICE, alma mía á Jehová; Y bendigan todas mis entrañas su santo nombre.

2 Bendice, alma mía, á Jehová, Y no olvides ninguno de sus beneficios.

3 El es quien perdona todas tus iniquidades, El que sana todas tus dolencias;

4 El que rescata del hoyo tu vida, El que te corona de favores y misericordias;

5 El que sacia de bien tu boca De modo que te rejuvenezcas como el águila.

6 Jehová el que hace justicia Y derecho á todos los que padecen violencia.

7 Sus caminos notificó á Moisés, Y á los hijos de Israel sus obras.

8 Misericordioso y clemente es Jehová; Lento para la ira, y grande en misericordia.

9 No contenderá para siempre, Ni para siempre guardará el enojo.

10 No ha hecho con nosotros conforme á nuestras iniquidades; Ni nos ha pagado conforme á nuestros pecados.

Salmos 103:1-10 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.