Psalm 103

Falling backwards into the individual introduction to the cluster 104-106, here is 103. One thing I note about this my second pass through the psalter, is that I am tackling all the really big psalms first. The first time through felt like a 2 year process - really only 17 months. This second pass is not much faster, 4 months for about 58 psalms. Remember to not be in a hurry. The process is different. I can now read the lexicon. The letters no longer leave my eye instantly reading the English and passing over the Hebrew. But there is sooo much ignorance in me - so take care, dear reader, and do your own due diligence. (I was going to plead age against your disciplined youth - but I will take the promise of verse 5 instead!)

Challenge me! Correct me! Fix me! But be prepared for a gentle and agreeable response. I decided not to include a graph of root recurrence but do not the repeated words - 9 times 'all' is stressed. The repetition of RXM and XSD requires slightly stilted translation - so I continued with nurture rather than 'shows compassion' but I kept what I might guess is an intensive plural (RXMYM) and coined the same in English.

And just look at all those participles with the definite article - lovely!

of David

Bless יְהוָה my being
and all my parts his holy name
Bless יְהוָה my being
and do not forget all his benefits

the forgiving of all your sin
the healing of all your diseases
the redeeming of your life from destruction
crowning you with kindness and compassions
the satisfying of your adornment with the good

your youth renewed like an eagle

יְהוָה makes righteousness and judgments for all the oppressed
he declared his ways to Moses
to the children of Israel his acts

יְהוָה of compassion and grace, slow to anger, and full of kindness

He will not always contend and he will not hold back for ever
Not as our sins has he dealt with us
and not as our iniquities has he rewarded us
for as heaven is high over the earth
so great is his kindness to those fearing him
as east is far removed from west
so far removed from us are our transgressions
as a father nurtures children so יְהוָה nurtures those fearing him
for he knows our situation
he remembers that we are dust

a human's days are as grass
as the flush of the field so he flourishes
for the wind passes over it and he is not
and his place no longer knows him

but the kindness of יְהוָה
is from age to age to those fearing him
and his righteousness to children's children
to those keeping his covenant
and those remembering his precepts to do them
יְהוָה prepared his throne in the heavens
and his kingdom rules over all

Bless יְהוָה his angels
strong of power doing his word
hearing the voice of his word
Bless יְהוָה all his hosts
his ministry
doing his pleasure
Bless יְהוָה all his works
in all places of his dominion
Bless יְהוָה my being