WebPsalms 103 COMMENTARY (Pulpit) < Go Back Bible Commentaries Psalm 103 Psalm 103:1 << Verse 1. "He has given thee true honour and great honour, no less than a crown: He crowns thee with his lovingkindness and tender mercies;" and what greater dignity is a poor soul capable of than to be advanced into the love and favour of God? 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: 3 Who forgives all Though he signify his displeasure against us for our sins by the rebukes of Providence, and the reproaches of our own consciences, and thus cause grief, yet he will have compassion, and will not always keep us in pain and terror, no, not for our sins, but, after the spirit of bondage, will give the spirit of adoption. Interesting that he said as far as the east is from the west, rather than as far the north is from the south. How true that is. Because the north is only about 12,500 miles from the south. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. Observe that he calls all that is within him to remember all the Lord's benefits. And forget not all His benefit s: . Bless the Lord He calls on his soul, and all its faculties and powers, to magnify God for his mercies. Bless ye the LORD, ye angels, that excel in strength, and do his commandments, harkening to the voice of his word. of EXPOSITION. NKJV, Spirit-Filled Life Bible, Third Edition, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Kingdom Equipping Through the Power of the Word, NKJV, Abide Bible, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version. Web1 O my soul, come, praise the Eternal with all that is in mebody, emotions, mind, and willevery part of who I am praise His holy name. [1.] By the pardon of sin, that is taken away which kept good things from us, and we are restored to the favor of God, who bestows good things on us. "He has rescued thee from danger." "He has pardoned thy sins (Psalms 103:3; Psalms 103:3); he has forgiven, and does forgive, all thy iniquities." Now it's another vein, "Bless the Lord, O my soul.". The redemption of the soul is precious; we cannot compass it, and therefore are the more indebted to divine grace that has wrought it out, to him who has obtained eternal redemption for us. In order to our return of praises to God, there must be a grateful remembrance of the mercies we have received from him: Forget not all his benefits. WebPsalm 2 is the second psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Why do the heathen rage".In Latin, it is known as "Quare fremuerunt gentes".Psalm 2 does not identify its author with a superscription, but Acts 4:2426 in the New Testament attributes it to David. A Psalm of David.. 1 Bless a the Lord, O my soul; . This psalm calls more for devotion than exposition; it is a most excellent psalm of praise, and of general use. This is cured in sanctification; when sin is mortified, the disease is healed; though complicated, it is all healed. 34:6, 7; Num. if any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. God's praise is a subject that will never be exhausted, and therefore we must never think this work done till we come to heaven, where it will be for ever in the doing. ", "This [Psalms 103] is perhaps the best-known and best-loved of all the hymns." Bless the Lord He calls on his soul, and all its faculties and powers, to magnify God for his mercies. 15As for man, (L)his days are like grass;As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.16(M)For the wind passes over it, and it is [b]gone,And (N)its place remembers it no more.17But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlastingOn those who fear Him,And His righteousness to childrens children,18(O)To such as keep His covenant,And to those who remember His commandments to do them. The angels occasionally serve God in this lower world; they do his commandments, go on his errands (Dan 9 21), fight his battles (2 Kings 6 17), and minister for the good of his people, Heb 1 14. The Lord has saved us with a great salvation, shall we render no recompense? By the name we understand the revealed character of God, and assuredly those songs which are suggested, not by our fallible reasoning and imperfect observation, but by unerring inspiration, should more than any others arouse all our consecrated powers. Nor do they delay, but fly swiftly: They do his commandments at hearing, or as soon as they hear the voice of his word; so Dr. Hammond. Salem Media Group. Oh, this body consciousness; everything is the body of man. These first verses are a tuning of the harp, a screwing up of the loosened strings that not a note may fail in the sacred harmony. He has reason to know our frame, for he framed us; and, having himself made man of the dust, he remembers that he is dust, not only by constitution, but by sentence. These two go together; for, as for God, his work is perfect and not done by halves; if God take away the guilt of sin by pardoning mercy, he will break the power of it by renewing grace. "O my soul! Who c heals all your diseases, . Some of the critical writers would assign this psalm to the times of the exile, or afterward, depending upon the occurrence of certain Aramaisms; but as Leupold observed, "Aramaisms are never a sure index of date. Think of the provocation; it was sin, and yet pardoned: how many the provocations, yet all pardoned! WebMatthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 103:1-4 Commentary on Psalm 103:1-5 (Read Psalm 103:1-5) By the pardon of sin, that is taken away which kept good things from us, and we are restored to the favor of God, who bestows good things on us. First, They live a life of faith; for they keep God's covenant; having taken hold of it, they keep hold of it, fast hold, and will not let it go. "[2] As Paul T. Butler, a distinguished Christian Church scholar of Joplin, Missouri, wrote in 1968, "Aramaisms cannot be made a criterion for determining date, because they are found in both early and late Old Testament books. The eagle is long-lived, and, as naturalists say, when she is nearly 100 years old, casts all her feathers (as indeed she changes them in a great measure every year at moulting time), and fresh ones come, so that she becomes young again. The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. Nothing but divine wisdom can undertake to fill its treasures (Proverbs 8:21); other things will surfeit, but not satiate,Ecclesiastes 6:7; Isaiah 55:2. The fulness of his pardons, an evidence of the riches of his mercy (v. 12): As far as the east is from the west (which two quarters of the world are of greatest extent, because all known and inhabited, and therefore geographers that way reckon their longitudes) so far has he removed our transgressions from us, so that they shall never be laid to our charge, nor rise up in judgment against us. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. We make nothing of our religious performances if we do not make heart-work of them, if that which is within us, nay, if all that is within us, be not engaged in them. 7:18], [2 Sam. It is a continued act; he is still forgiving, as we are still sinning and repenting. The Book of Psalms is part of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.In the slightly different numbering system of the Greek Septuagint He began with Bless the Lord, O my soul! Then again, as he started the psalm, he ends it, "Bless the Lord, O my soul." 5 Things You Should Know about the ESV Bible Translation. God wasn't disappointed; I was disappointed in me. 103:1-5 By the pardon of sin, that is taken away which kept good things from us, and we are restored to the favor of God, who bestows good things on us. He satisfies thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. How short man's life is and of what uncertain continuance. WebPsalm 103 New King James Version Praise for the Lords Mercies A Psalm of David. Let all my thoughts and affections be engaged, and united, and stirred up to the highest pitch in and for this work. and all that is within me, bless his holy name; meaning not only all within his body, his heart, reins, lungs, &c. but all within his soul, all the powers and faculties of it; his understanding, will, affections, and judgment; and all the grace that was wrought in him, faith, hope, love, joy, and the like; these he would have all concerned and employed in praising the name of the Lord; which is exalted above all blessing and praise; is great and glorious in all the earth, by reason of his works wrought, and blessings of goodness bestowed; and which appears to be holy in them all, as it does in the works of creation, providence, and redemption; at the remembrance of which holiness thanks should be given; for he that is glorious in holiness is fearful in praises, Psalm 97:12. Bless, &c.when God is the object, praise. "Oh, I thought I was stronger than that, I thought I was better than that and all. Psa 103:13. For all the saints. Under such a weight of obligation the lips can do little; the soul and all its powers must be engaged. No one of his faculties or powers should be exempt from the duty and the privilege of praise. 11 As high as the sky is above the earth, WebNew King James Version Praise for the LORD's Benefits. The distance of about 12,500 miles, that is, unless you are going straight through. 2; also at the end of the psalm; and again in Psalm 104:1, 35. He is in real earnest, and again calls upon himself to arise. The duty of universal praise inferred from it: if all are under God's dominion, all must do him homage. 1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. David stirreth up himself to bless God, Psalm 103:1,2; who forgiveth his sins, Psalm 103:3, redeemeth and satisfieth his soul, Psalm 103:4,5; for other manifold mercies to himself and the church, Psalm 103:6-14. WebMatthew Henry's Concise Commentary 103:6-14 Truly God is good to all: he is in a special manner good to Israel. Psalm 103:1. 2. Let others forbear if they can: "Bless the Lord, O my soul." Thus fairly does God deal with us. Though it is of our own benefit, by the pardoning mercy of God, that we are to take the comfort, yet of the benefit others have by it we must give him the glory. But though God's throne is in heaven, and there he keeps his court, and thither we are to direct to him (Our Father who art in heaven), yet his kingdom rules over all. "He has given thee a prospect and pledge of long life: Thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." But God knew me, He knew me better than I knew myself. I. Dust thou art. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: 3 b Who forgives all your iniquities, Who c heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from destruction, d Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 5 Who satisfies (3.) "And all that is within me, bless his holy name." Where Christ is made righteousness to any soul he is made sanctification, 1 Corinthians 1:30. 1.Bless Jehovah, O my soul! Note, Divine revelation is one of the first and greatest of divine favours with which the church is blessed; for God restores us to himself by revealing himself to us, and gives us all good by giving us knowledge. All these guys working out in the windows, standing there, curling, you know. <<. Second Reading Commentary on Romans 14:1-12 For the LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. What's wrong, soul? csfa league table. David called on himself to bless the Lord wholeheartedly because of all His many blessings. "Commentary on Psalms 103:1". WebVerses 1-22. Every mortal life has received countless benefits at the hand of the Lord, has been healed of many diseases, has received forgiveness of sins, has experienced the redemption of his life from destruction threatened by many dangers seen and unseen, and has enjoyed countless satisfactions from the good things which the Lord has provided. WebAny other use of the NKJV must be in conformity with the Quotation Policy for the New King James Version. As far as our days, we are as the grass: or like a flower in the field ( Psalms 103:15 ). So David calls the angels, the heavenly hosts, in to the praising of God. 5. (2.) If he had not been a God of patience, we should have been in hell long ago; but he has not rewarded us after our iniquities; so those will say who know what sin deserves. Bless the Lord, O my soul,. His better part, his soul, which comes immediately from God, and returns to him, which is immaterial and immortal, and of more worth than the world: God is to be served with the best we have; as with the best of our substance, so with the best of our persons; and it is the heart, or soul, which he requires to be given him; and such service as is performed with the soul or spirit is most agreeable to him; he being a Spirit, and therefore must be worshipped in spirit and in truth: unless the spirit or soul of a man, is engaged in the service of God, it is of little avail; for bodily exercise profiteth not; preaching, hearing, praying, and praising, should be both with the spirit, and with the understanding: here the psalmist calls upon his soul to "bless" the Lord; not by invoking or conferring a blessing on him, which as it is impossible to be done, so he stands in no need of it, being God, all sufficient, and blessed for evermore; but by proclaiming and congratulating his blessedness, and by giving him thanks for all mercies, spiritual and temporal: and all that is within me, bless his holy name; meaning not only all within his body, his heart, reins, lungs, c. but all within his soul, all the powers and faculties of it his understanding, will, affections, and judgment; and all the grace that was wrought in him, faith, hope, love, joy, and the like; these he would have all concerned and employed in praising the name of the Lord; which is exalted above all blessing and praise; is great and glorious in all the earth, by reason of his works wrought, and blessings of goodness bestowed; and which appears to be holy in them all, as it does in the works of creation, providence, and redemption; at the remembrance of which holiness thanks should be given; for he that is glorious in holiness is fearful in praises, Psalms 97:12. 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