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Psalm 103

¹Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
²Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
³Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
⁴Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
⁵Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
⁶The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
⁷He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
⁸The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
⁹He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
¹⁰He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
¹¹For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
¹²As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
¹³Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
¹⁴For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
¹⁶For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
¹⁷But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
¹⁸To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
¹⁹The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
²⁰Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
²¹Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
²²Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.

¹³Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
¹⁴But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
¹⁵Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
¹⁶Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
¹⁷Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
¹⁸Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
¹⁹For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
²⁰The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
²¹Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
²²Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
²³And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

3For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
²If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
³How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
⁴Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
⁵Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
⁶That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
⁷Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
⁸Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
⁹And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
¹⁰To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
¹¹According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
¹²In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.