The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
The Lord is merciful and gracious. Those with whom he deals are sinners. However much he favours them they are guilty and need mercy at his hands, nor is he slow to compassionate their lost estate, or reluctant by his grace to lift them out of it. Mercy pardons sin, grace bestows favour: in both the Lord abounds.
The poet widens his vision from himself to God's gracious conduct toward sinful, perishing men as it shines forth in Israel's history and is known through revelation. God's ways here are not the precepts He commands us to walk in, but the redemptive path He Himself follows in history.
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Commenting on Psalm 103:6-10
God executes righteousness not only for His people but for all the oppressed; He is the patron of wronged innocency everywhere. It is His honour to humble the proud and help the helpless. Divine revelation is the first and greatest favour the church receives, for by knowing God we are restored to Him and given all good.
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Commenting on Psalm 103:6-18