Salmos 103:4-14

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.

11 Porque como la altura de los cielos sobre la tierra, Engrandeció su misericordia sobre los que le temen.

12 Cuanto está lejos el oriente del occidente, Hizo alejar de nosotros nuestras rebeliones.

13 Como el padre se compadece de los hijos, Se compadece Jehová de los que le temen.

14 Porque él conoce nuestra condición; Acuérdase que somos polvo.

Salmos 103:4-14 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.