For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.Knoweth — The weakness and mortality of our natures, and the frailty of our condition, so that if he should let loose his hand upon us, we should be irrecoverably destroyed. read more
1. Bless the Lord, O my soul To “bless the Lord” is to praise him by declaring his attributes and works, and offering thanksgiving. To “bless” an individual man is to invoke the favour of God upon him. See Numbers 6:22-27. “Soul,” here, cannot be taken as the intermediate, or psychical nature, between the mind and body, according to the Greek trichotomy, but the ego, the self, and is parallel to the all that is within me, or inward parts, in the next line; or, as we would say, my... read more
2. Forget not all his benefits A commandment of the law, Deuteronomy 6:12; Deuteronomy 8:11-14; (compare, also, Deuteronomy 32:15,) and a first duty of the creature. “He that has been blessed, and refuses to bless, has sunk from the state of a man to that of a beast.” Hengstenberg. All That is, any; the same word as in Psalms 147:20 read more
3. Who forgiveth The chief blessing to a guilty soul. But this is not only an acknowledgment of the uniform readiness of God to forgive, (as Exodus 34:6-7,) but a special confession of what God had done for him: and the freshness of David’s joy, and confession of pardon, and his repeated recurrence to the same thing, (Psalms 103:8; Psalms 103:10; Psalms 103:12,) evidence some recent remarkable instance of this forgiving grace, which accords well with the date and authorship assigned in the... read more
4. From destruction From death from the grave. The word is elsewhere translated pit, grave, corruption; but it denotes a state of death in which the body returns to corruption. Here, also, in the idea of redemption from the grave, the germ of the doctrine of the resurrection is discovered. read more
5. Thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s The allusion is to the fresh plumage of the eagle after moulting. The figure of Isaiah 40:31, is based on the eagle’s breadth and strength of wing. Instead of, “They shall mount up on wings as eagles,” the Septuagint erroneously has it, “They shall put forth new feathers like eagles.” read more
6. Righteousness and judgment See note on Psalms 72:1. For all For God is no respecter of persons. read more
7. His ways God’s “ways,” or methods, in redemption. The allusion is to Exodus 33:13. It was not an objective revelation merely, but such a series of manifestations as well, as illustrated at once both the principles and the fact of his salvation. read more
8. Merciful and gracious A quotation from Exodus 34:6 read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 103:11
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.So great — So much above their deserts and expectations. read more