Psalms

(103) A Psalm of David.

¹Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

²Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his praises:

³who forgives all your transgressions, who heals all your diseases;

⁴who redeems your life from corruption; who crowns you with mercy and compassion;

⁵who satisfies your desire with good things: so that your youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.

⁶The Lord executes mercy and judgment for all that are injured.

⁷He made known his ways to Moses, his will to the children of Israel.

⁸The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, longsuffering, and full of mercy.

⁹He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever.

¹⁰He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities.

¹¹For as the heaven is high above the earth, the Lord has so increased his mercy toward them that fear him.

¹²As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

¹³As a father pities his children, the Lord pities them that fear him.

¹⁴For he knows our frame: remember that we are dust.

¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

¹⁶For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more.

¹⁷But the mercy of the Lord is from generation to generation upon them that fear him, and his righteousness to children's children;

¹⁸to them that keep his covenant, and remember his commandments to do them.

¹⁹The Lord has prepared his throne in the heaven; and his kingdom rules over all.

²⁰Bless the Lord, all you⌃ his angels, mighty in strength, who perform his bidding, ready to listen to the voice of his words.

²¹Bless the Lord, all you⌃ his hosts; you⌃ ministers of his that do his will.

²²Bless the Lord, all his works, in every place of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.