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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 103 A Psalm of David. The Targum adds, "spoken in prophecy,'' as doubtless it was, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Some think it was written by David, after a fit of illness, and his recovery from it, since he speaks of his diseases being healed, and his youth renewed; for which reason the Syriac interpreter suggests it was written in his old age; for he makes the...
John Gill
As far as the east is from the west,.... Which Kimchi thinks is mentioned because it contains the length of the habitable world; and therefore it is not said as far as the north is from the south; since a man can go from east to west, but not from north to south, because of the extreme heat and cold. But this distance is not given with respect to those opposite parts of the earth, which scarcely...
Matthew Henry
This psalm calls more for devotion than exposition; it is a most excellent psalm of praise, and of general use. The psalmist, I. Stirs up himself and his own soul to praise God (ver. 1, 2) for his favour to him in particular (ver. 3-5), to the church in general, and to all good men, to whom he is, and will be, just, and kind, and constant (ver. 6-18), and for his government of the world, ver. 19....
Charles H. Spurgeon
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. They are gone. There is a chasm between us and our sins, which will never be bridged. To an infinite distance has the great Scapegoat carried away all the sins of his people; they shall never return to us.
Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. They are gone never to return; it is impossible that they should he imputed against us any more for ever; therefore, praise him to the very utmost.
Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Here again I cannot tell how much we ought to bless him. It is not merely pardon of a temporary character that is given to us, but our sin is carried right away into a land of forgetfulness, so that it will never come back again to us. “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Then, surely, he will also remove our troubles from us; but if not, as he has removed our transgressions so far away that they can never be brought back again, we have real...
Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Let us therefore unstintedly praise him for such boundless lovingkindness and tender mercy.
Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Oh! what a mercy this is! In the third verse, you see, he gave us the note upon which here, in the twelfth verse, he enlarges: “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities.” How doth he forgive them? Why, “as far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.” They were ours: we could...
Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. They are gone; they are removed to an infinite distance; they will never come back. It is not possible that they should ever again be laid to our charge.
Charles H. Spurgeon
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. There is neither latitude nor longitude for praise. God’s grace is boundless; let us therefore unstintedly praise him.