
Text -- Psalms 103:6 (NET)




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JFB -> Psa 103:6
JFB: Psa 103:6 - -- Literally, "righteousness and judgments," denoting various acts of God's government.
Literally, "righteousness and judgments," denoting various acts of God's government.
Clarke -> Psa 103:6
Clarke: Psa 103:6 - -- The Lord executeth - This shall be done because the Lord will avenge his elect who have cried unto him day and night for his deliverance: "He is slo...
The Lord executeth - This shall be done because the Lord will avenge his elect who have cried unto him day and night for his deliverance: "He is slow to anger;"but he will punish. "He is plenteous in mercy,"and he will save. The persevering sinner shall be destroyed; the humble penitent shall be saved.
Calvin -> Psa 103:6
Calvin: Psa 103:6 - -- 6.Jehovah executeth righteousness David having recounted the Divine benefits bestowed upon himself, now passes from this personal consideration to ta...
6.Jehovah executeth righteousness David having recounted the Divine benefits bestowed upon himself, now passes from this personal consideration to take a wider view of the subject. There is, however, no doubt that when he declares God to be the succorer of the oppressed, he includes himself among the number, for he had enjoyed the Divine help under many persecutions; and, from his own experience, he describes the character in which God is accustomed to manifest himself towards all who are unrighteously afflicted. As the faithful, while in this world, are always living among wolves, by using the plural number, he celebrates a variety of deliverances, to teach us that it is God’s ordinary work to succor his servants whenever he sees them injuriously treated. Hence we are taught to exercise patience when we find that God takes it upon him to avenge our wrongs, and that he covers us with the shield of his justice, or defends us with the sword of his judgment, as often as we are assaulted wrongfully.
TSK -> Psa 103:6
TSK: Psa 103:6 - -- executeth : Psa 9:9, Psa 10:14-18, Psa 12:5, Psa 72:4, Psa 72:12, Psa 109:31, Psa 146:7; Deu 24:14, Deu 24:15; Job 27:13-23; Pro 14:31, Pro 22:22, Pro...
executeth : Psa 9:9, Psa 10:14-18, Psa 12:5, Psa 72:4, Psa 72:12, Psa 109:31, Psa 146:7; Deu 24:14, Deu 24:15; Job 27:13-23; Pro 14:31, Pro 22:22, Pro 22:23, Pro 23:10; Isa. 14:4-32, Isa 14:17-19, Isa 58:6, Isa 58:7; Jer 7:6-15; Eze 22:7, Eze 22:12-14; Mic 2:1-3, Mic 3:2-4; Jam 2:6, Jam 5:1-6

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Barnes -> Psa 103:6
Barnes: Psa 103:6 - -- The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment - That is, "justice."He sees that justice is done to the oppressed. He is on their side. His law,...
The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment - That is, "justice."He sees that justice is done to the oppressed. He is on their side. His law, his commands, his judicial decisions, his providential interpositions, are in their favor. This does not mean that it will he done at once; or that there will never be any delay; or that they may not suffer even for a long time - for this occurs in fact; but the meaning is, that God has their true interest at heart; that at proper times, and whenever and whereever there are any dealings of his in the case, his acts are in favor of those that are oppressed; and that there will be sooner or later such interpositions in their behalf as shall entirely vindicate their cause.
For all that are oppressed - By harsh laws; by unjust governments; by slavery; by unrighteous decisions in courts; by the pride and power of wicked people. Compare the notes at Isa 1:17, notes at Isa 1:23-27.
Poole -> Psa 103:6
Poole: Psa 103:6 - -- Which being a singular perfection, and that wherein most of the princes of the world were and are defective, is justly celebrated in God.
Which being a singular perfection, and that wherein most of the princes of the world were and are defective, is justly celebrated in God.
Haydock -> Psa 103:6
Haydock: Psa 103:6 - -- The deep. Hebrew, "thou hast covered it with the abyss." This proves that there was no pre-existent matter, otherwise God would not have begun with...
The deep. Hebrew, "thou hast covered it with the abyss." This proves that there was no pre-existent matter, otherwise God would not have begun with the plunging his work in the abyss, and in confusion. But he chose to bring this beautiful world out of a state of disorder in the space of six days, as Moses and the psalmist relate. (Berthier) ---
At first, all was created, covered with the waters, Genesis i.
Gill -> Psa 103:6
Gill: Psa 103:6 - -- The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. Not only for the Israelites oppressed by the Egyptians, though the psalmist ...
The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. Not only for the Israelites oppressed by the Egyptians, though the psalmist might have them in his view, by what follows; for whom the Lord did justice, by delivering them out of the hands of their oppressors, and by punishing Pharaoh and his people, and bringing down judgments upon them, both in Egypt and at the Red sea; but for all other oppressed ones in common, the poor, the widow, and the fatherless, who are often oppressed by the rich and mighty; the Lord judges their cause, and does them right, and frees them from their oppression; and so all good men who are oppressed by tyrannical princes and cruel persecutors, and all such whom the man of the earth, the man of sin, antichrist, oppresses, Psa 10:18 and all those who are oppressed by the devil, buffeted by Satan, and bore down with his temptations; the Lord rebukes him in his own time, and delivers his people out of his hands; which is matter of praise and thankfulness: the psalmist, in this verse and the following, passes to the consideration of the good things God did for others, in order to keep up a warm sense of divine goodness upon his heart.

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 103:1-22
TSK Synopsis: Psa 103:1-22 - --1 An exhortation to bless God for his mercy,15 and for the constancy thereof.
MHCC -> Psa 103:6-14
MHCC: Psa 103:6-14 - --Truly God is good to all: he is in a special manner good to Israel. He has revealed himself and his grace to them. By his ways we may understand his p...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 103:6-18
Matthew Henry: Psa 103:6-18 - -- Hitherto the psalmist had only looked back upon his own experiences and thence fetched matter for praise; here he looks abroad and takes notice of h...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 103:6-10
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 103:6-10 - --
His range of vision being widened from himself, the poet now in Psa 103:6 describes God's gracious and fatherly conduct towards sinful and perishing...
Constable: Psa 90:1--106:48 - --IV. Book 4: chs. 90--106
Moses composed one of the psalms in this section of the Psalter (Ps. 90). David wrote t...

Constable: Psa 103:1-22 - --Psalm 103
This popular Davidic psalm reviews God's mercies and expresses confident hope in His covenant ...
