Psalms 103:2 This Psalm is: (1) a monologue; (2) a psalm of recollection; (3) a psalm of thanksgiving. David begins by gathering together all the benefits by recollection, and now he has to arrange them, so that they can be sung by any soul exercising itself like his, and remembering the first bene... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 103:3 I. He "forgiveth all thine iniquities." Thine iniquities are in-equities. There is nothing just or right in thee. He forgiveth thee thine evil nature, and He forgiveth all its evil fruit. And His forgiveness, like His power, fulfils itself in works. II. He "healeth all thy diseases.... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 103:5 How may we recover in manhood, but in a wiser way, what was noble in our youth recover our manifold interests, our poetic feeling towards the history of man and nature, our ideal of the goodness, truth, and love of man? I. The restoration of manifold interests. Youth teaches us diversi... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 103:9 , PSALMS 103:13 I. In the mind of the psalmists there was nothing contradictory between faith in God as a righteous Judge and faith in God as being longsuffering and of great kindness. They did not think of God as divided between His sense of justice and His love of mercy, because they... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 103:9 , PSALMS 103:13 I. In the mind of the psalmists there was nothing contradictory between faith in God as a righteous Judge and faith in God as being longsuffering and of great kindness. They did not think of God as divided between His sense of justice and His love of mercy, because they... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 103:13 I. There is no evidence to be derived of the existence of pity in any overruling Deity as far as the laws of nature reveal the Divine character. As we rise from the lower to the higher organised animals, there does begin to be a very distinct manifestation of affection. Among men the... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 103:15 Man's reason is his distinctive privilege; but it has one melancholy result: it makes him know his own weakness and mortality. Other creatures are only aware of evil when they actually come upon it, and after the moment of terror are tranquil and careless, as before. Man has evil allo... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 103:20 These verses contain or imply an answer the unvarying answer of Holy Scripture to the question which is ever recurring, which perplexed wise and anxious heathen men, and still puts itself at one time or another to each of us the question, I mean, What is the object of man? for what end... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 103:22 I. The text consists of two sentences: the first, the Psalmist's exhortation to others; the second, a precisely similar exhortation to himself: "Bless ye the Lord." His hand is upon his harp; he is weaving a spirit-stirring anthem, and he summons every creature within sound of his voic... [ Continue Reading ]