Psalm 103:1-11

1 De David. Bendice, alma mía al SEÑOR; y todas mis entrañas al Nombre de su santidad.

2 Bendice, alma mía, al SEÑOR, y no olvides ninguno de sus beneficios:

3 el que perdona todas tus iniquidades, el que sana todas tus enfermedades,

4 el que rescata del hoyo tu vida, el que te corona de favores y misericordia;

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

6 El SEÑOR es el que hace justicia y derecho a todos los que padecen violencia.

7 Sus caminos notificó a Moisés, y a los hijos de Israel sus obras.

8 Misericordioso y clemente es el SEÑOR; 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 a nuestras iniquidades; ni nos ha pagado conforme a nuestros pecados.

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

Psalm 103:1-11 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.