John Calvin Reformed @genevareformer

David teaches every godly person to thank God first for mercies granted to himself, then for the grace He has given to all His chosen ones through covenant. The Psalmist chiefly magnifies God's mercy in bearing with His people, not because they deserve it, but because He takes pity on their weakness.

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Commenting on Psalm 103:1-22

C.H. Spurgeon Reformed Baptist @princeofpreachers

Bless the Lord O my soul. Soul music is the very soul of music. The Psalmist strikes the best keymote when he begins with stirring up his inmost self to magnify the Lord. He soliloquizes, holds self-communion and exhorts himself, as though he felt that dulness would all too soon steal over his faculties, as, indeed, it will over us all, unless we are diligently on the watch.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

A man who talks to himself this way is no fool; he is rousing his own heart to praise. The soul must do the work, all of it, heart-work, not mere lip-service, and to praise rightly we must remember His mercies, for to forget them is to be both unjust and unkind.

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Commenting on Psalm 103:1-5