Psalm 103
A Psalm of David.
1 O thou my soul, Jehovah bless,
and all things that in me
most inward are, in humbleness
his holy name bless ye.
2 The Lord bless in humility,
O thou my soul: also
put not out of thy memory
all’s bounties thee unto.
3 For he it is who pardoneth
all thine iniquities:
he it is also who healeth
all thine infirmities.
4 Who thy life from destruction
redeems: who crowneth thee
with his tender compassion
and kind benignity.
5 Who with good things abundantly
doth satisfy thy mouth:
so that like as the eagles be
renewed is thy youth.
6 The Lord doth judgment and justice
for all oppressed ones.
7 To Moses show’d those ways of his:
his acts to Isr’el’s sons.
8 The Lord is merciful also
he’s very gracious:
and unto anger he is slow,
in mercy plenteous.
9 Contention he will not maintain
to perpetuity:
nor he his anger will retain
unto eternity.
10 According to our sins likewise
to us he hath not done:
nor hath he our iniquities
rewarded us upon.
11 Because ev’n as the heavens are
in height the earth above:
so toward them that do him fear
confirmed is his love.
12 Like as the east and west they are
far in their distances:
he hath remov’d away so far
from us our trespasses.
13 A father’s pity like unto,
which he his sons doth bear:
like pity doth Jehovah show
to them that do him fear.
14 For he doth know this frame of ours:
he minds that dust we be.
15 Man’s days are like the grass: like flow’rs
in field, so flourish’th he.
16 For over it the wind doth pass,
and it away doth go;
also the place whereas it was
no longer shall it know.
17 But yet God’s mercy ever is,
shall be, and aye hath been
to them that fear him; and’s justice
unto children’s children.
18 To such as keep his covenant,
that do in mind up lay
the charge of his commandement
that it they may obey.