psalm 103 nkjv commentary
"He has given thee true pleasure: He satisfies thy mouth with good things" (Psalms 103:5; Psalms 103:5); it is only the favour and grace of God that can give satisfaction to a soul, can suit its capacities, supply its needs, and answer to its desires. And so science is changing. 1. The scripture says a great deal of the mercy of God, and we may all set to our seal that it is true, that we have experienced it. 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. (1.) Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. This is a perfect psalm, suitable to all times and situations. I thought I was Superman. Though there is no real connection between this psalm and the preceding one, this one expresses thanks for answered prayer, which Psalms 102 requested. "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? Thus fairly does God deal with us. 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. Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Now it's another vein, "Bless the Lord, O my soul.". (2.) A Psalm of David .Doubtless by David; it is in his own style when at its best, and we should attribute it to his later years when he had a higher sense of the preciousness of pardon, because a keener sense of sin, than in his younger days. 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. Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his that do his pleasure. He will not keep his anger for ever against his own people, but will gather them with everlasting mercies, Isa 54 8; 57 16. For our task our energies should be suitably called out. "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities." 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. I thought I could I leap buildings with a single bound, and He knows my frame. This is Old Testament. Salem Media Group. "Commentary on Psalms 103:1". But you can start off tonight flying east, and you'll fly east the rest of your life, if you don't change directions. if any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. David is here communing with his own heart, and he is no fool that thus talks to himself and excites his own soul to that which is good. and, when he had penned and sung this excellent hymn to his honour, he does not say, Now, O my soul! This writer remembers from the prayers of his grandfather the employment of Psalms 103:10 verbatim as it appears in the King James Bible, and also an exclamation that, "The time and place that know us now, shall soon know us no more for ever," founded upon Psalms 103:16. (a) He wakens his dulness to praise God, showing that both understanding and affections, mind and heart, are too little to set forth his praise. He bears long with those that are very provoking, defers punishing, that he may give space to repent, and does not speedily execute the sentence of his law; and he could not be thus slow to anger if he were not plenteous in mercy, the very Father of mercies. The facts are changing, the facts of science seem to often change, but that is totally inconsistent. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: 3 Who forgives all 4 Who redeems your life from destruction, . How he furnishes himself with abundant matter for praise, and that which is very affecting: "Come, my soul, consider what God has done for thee." Sin, sickness and the prospect of a hopeless death have been replaced by forgiveness, good health and a renewed enjoyment of life (3-5).The constant love of God for his people is seen in the history of Israel. [Note: Brueggemann, p. 4. We have come into a body worship cult. Let the holy angels praise him (v. 20, 21): Bless the Lord, you his angels; and again, Bless the Lord, all you his hosts, you ministers of his. continuedTHE ARGUMENT This Psalm contains a thankful commemoration and celebration of Gods mercies to the psalmist himself, and to the people of Israel, and to all good men. . WebIn both fire and water, those two raging elements that have no mercy, he shows mercy; delivers us from both in both. WebPsalm 103 . First, To their souls, which are immortal; to them the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting; from everlasting in the councils of it to everlasting in the consequences of it, in their election before the world was and their glorification when this world shall be no more; for they are predestinated to the inheritance (Eph 1 11) and look for the mercy of the Lord, the Lord Jesus, unto eternal life. 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. 30:5; Is. WebBridgeway Bible Commentary. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 11 As high as the sky is above the earth, How he pitiesas a father pities his children, and does them good as there is occasion. [2.] 2023 Christianity.com. Observe, I. The distance of about 12,500 miles, that is, unless you are going straight through. <<. And as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us ( Psalms 103:11-12 ). And the key here all the way through is to those that reverence God. 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. If we do not give thanks for them, we do forget them; and that is unjust as well as unkind, since in all God's favours there is so much that is memorable. This is cured in sanctification; when sin is mortified, the disease is healed; though complicated, it is all healed. WebMatthew Henry's Concise Commentary 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. It is God's glory that he has such attendants, but more his glory that he neither needs them nor is benefited by them. 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. No one of his faculties or powers should be exempt from the duty and the privilege of praise. God wasn't disappointed; I was disappointed in me. WebPsalm 103 . You can only go north until you get to the North Pole, then you are going south. yet more and more. And we are challenging so oftentimes Satan to do battle with us. Proud member Let us awake then, and with intense enthusiasm bless Jehovah. And forget not Psa 103:13. They keep it as a treasure, keep it as their portion, and would not for all the world part with it, for it is their life. WebPsalms 103 COMMENTARY (Pulpit) < Go Back Bible Commentaries. and his righteousness to the children's children [that's my grandkids]; And to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them. Our very life and essential self should be engrossed with this delightful service, and each one of us should arouse his own heart to the engagement. 1. 17:14, [Ex. A man may be in peril of life, not only by his crimes, or his diseases, but by the power of his enemies; and therefore here also we experience the divine goodness: Who redeemed thy life from destruction ( v. 4), from the destroyer, from hell (so the Chaldee), from the second death. Oh God, I am so sorry I disappointed You." The description of those to whom this mercy belongs. Half-hearted, ill-conceived, unintelligent praises are not such as we should render to our loving Lord. God is a Father to those that fear him and owns them for his children, and he is tender of them as a father. "As high is the heavens is above the earth." [Note: Wiersbe, The . The Holy Spirit, by his mouth, indirectly upbraids us on account of our not being more diligent in praising God, and at the same time points out the remedy, that every man may descend into himself and correct his own sluggishness. 2. Man, in his best estate, seems somewhat more than grass; he flourishes and looks gay; yet then he is but like a flower of the field, which, though distinguished a little from the grass, will wither with it. All right, keep searching man; you're only expanding the mercy of my God. 2; also at the end of the psalm; and again in Psalm 104:1, 35. David often was talking to his inward man, talking to his soul. 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. his holy name(Ps 5:11), His complete moral perfections. (2.) It is the Lord that is to be blessed and spoken well of; for he is the fountain of all good, whatever are the channels or cisterns; it is to his name, his holy name, that we are to consecrate our praise, giving thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. It is the soul that is to be employed in blessing God, and all that is within us. When the flower is in its perfection a blasting wind, unseen, unlooked for, passes over it, and it is gone; it hangs the head, drops the leaves, dwindles into the ground again, and the place thereof, which was proud of it, now knows it no more. Or by his ways we may understand his precepts, the way which he requires us to walk in; and by his acts, or designs (as the word signifies), his promises and purposes as to what he will do with us. 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