Praise the LORD, O my soul; ALL
my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Praise the LORD, O my soul, and FORGET NOT ALL his benefits—who forgives ALL your sins and heals ALL
your diseases, who redeems YOUR life from the pit and CROWNS YOU with love and
compassion, who SATISFIES your desires with GOOD things SO THAT your youth is
renewed like the eagle’s.
The LORD works righteousness and
justice FOR all the people of Israel:
The LORD IS compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in
love. He will not always accuse,
nor will he harbor his anger forever; HE DOES NOT TREAT US AS OUR SINS DESERVE
or repay us according to our iniquities.
For AS HIGH AS the heavens are
above the earth, SO GREAT is his love for those who fear him; AS FAR AS the
east is from the west, SO FAR HAS he removed our transgressions from us.
AS a father has compassion on
his children, SO the LORD HAS compassion on those who fear him, FOR HE KNOWS
how we are formed, HE REMEMBERS that we are dust.
AS FOR MAN, his days are like
grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it
is gone, and its place remembers it no more. BUT FROM EVERLASTING to EVERLASTING the LORD’s love IS with
those who fear him, and HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH their children’s children—WITH THOSE who keep his covenant and REMEMBER TO OBEY his
precepts.
The LORD HAS established his
throne in heaven, AND HIS KINGDOM RULES OVER ALL. Praise the
LORD, YOU his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his
word. Praise the LORD, all his
heavenly hosts, you his servants who DO HIS WILL. Praise the LORD, ALL his
works everywhere in his dominion.
Praise the LORD, O MY soul. –Psalm
103
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