Psalms 103:2

Brenton's Septuagint

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his praises:

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Let all that I am praise the Lord ; may I never forget the good things he does for me.

English Revised Version
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

Update Bible Version
Bless Yahweh, O my soul, And do not forget all his benefits:

New Century Version
My whole being, praise the Lord and do not forget all his kindnesses.

New English Translation
Praise the Lord , O my soul! Do not forget all his kind deeds!

Webster's Bible Translation
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

World English Bible
Praise Yahweh, my soul, And don't forget all his benefits;

Amplified Bible
Bless and affectionately praise the LORD, O my soul, And do not forget any of His benefits;

English Standard Version
Bless the Lord , O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi soule, blesse thou the Lord; and nyle thou foryete alle the yeldyngis of him.

Berean Standard Bible
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds-

Contemporary English Version
With all my heart I praise the Lord ! I will never forget how kind he has been.

American Standard Version
Bless Jehovah, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits:

Bible in Basic English
Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory.

Complete Jewish Bible
Bless Adonai , my soul, and forget none of his benefits!

Darby Translation
Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

Easy-to-Read Version
My soul, praise the Lord and never forget how kind he is!

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits;

King James Version (1611)
Blesse the Lord, O my soule: & forget not all his benefits.

New Life Bible
Praise the Lord, O my soul. And forget none of His acts of kindness.

New Revised Standard
Bless the Lord , O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits—

Geneva Bible (1587)
My soule, prayse thou the Lord, and forget not all his benefites.

George Lamsa Translation
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

Good News Translation
Praise the Lord , my soul, and do not forget how kind he is.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Bless, O my soul, Yahweh, And forget not all his dealings: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
(102-2) Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for thee.

Revised Standard Version
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blesse God O my soule: and forget not all his benefites.

Christian Standard Bible®
My soul, bless the Lord,and do not forget all his benefits.

Hebrew Names Version
Praise the LORD, my soul, And don't forget all his benefits;

King James Version
Bless the Lord , O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

Lexham English Bible
Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits:

Literal Translation
Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits;

Young's Literal Translation
Bless, O my soul, Jehovah, And forget not all His benefits,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Prayse the LORDE o my soule, & forget not all his benefites.

New American Standard Bible
Bless the LORD, my soul, And do not forget any of His benefits;

New King James Version
Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Bless the Lord , O my soul, And forget none of His benefits;

Legacy Standard Bible
Bless Yahweh, O my soul,And forget none of His benefits;

Contextual Overview

¹ Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name. ² Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his praises: ³ who forgives all thy transgressions, who heals all thy diseases; ⁴ who redeems thy life from corruption; who crowns thee with mercy and compassion; ⁵ who satisfies thy desire with good things: so that thy youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

forget not: Psalms 105:5, Psalms 106:7, Psalms 106:21, Psalms 116:12, Deuteronomy 8:2-4, Deuteronomy 8:10-14, Deuteronomy 32:6, Deuteronomy 32:18, 2 Chronicles 32:25, Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:7, Jeremiah 2:31, Jeremiah 2:32, Luke 17:15-18, Ephesians 2:11-13

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:32 - General Leviticus 7:12 - a thanksgiving Numbers 31:54 - a memorial Deuteronomy 26:7 - we cried Joshua 4:3 - twelve stones Judges 5:12 - Deborah Ruth 4:14 - Blessed 1 Kings 1:48 - Blessed 1 Chronicles 16:4 - to record 1 Chronicles 16:12 - Remember 1 Chronicles 29:10 - David blessed 2 Chronicles 20:26 - blessed Nehemiah 9:5 - bless Esther 9:22 - the days Esther 9:28 - remembered Psalms 9:1 - praise Psalms 62:5 - soul Psalms 78:7 - not forget Psalms 96:2 - bless Psalms 100:4 - be thankful Psalms 104:1 - Bless Psalms 104:35 - Bless Psalms 107:31 - Oh that men Psalms 130:4 - But there Psalms 138:1 - I will praise Psalms 145:1 - extol thee Song of Solomon 1:4 - remember Daniel 2:20 - Blessed Micah 6:5 - remember Micah 7:18 - that Mark 5:33 - and told Luke 1:46 - General Acts 3:8 - praising Colossians 3:16 - singing

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Bless the Lord, O my soul,.... Which is repeated to show the importance of the service, and the vehement desire of the psalmist, that his soul should be engaged in it:

and forget not all his benefits; not any of them; the least of them are not to be forgotten, being such as men are altogether unworthy of; they flow not from the merit of men, but from the mercy of God; and they are many, even innumerable; they are new every morning, and continue all the day; and how great must the sum of them be, and not one should be forgotten; and yet even good men are very apt to forget them; as the Israelites of old, who sung the praises of the Lord, and soon forgot his works: the Lord, knowing the weakness of his people's memories, has not only, under the Gospel dispensation, appointed an ordinance, to be continued to the end of the world, to commemorate a principal blessing and benefit of his, redemption by his Son; but has also promised his Spirit, to bring all things to their remembrance; and this they should be concerned for, that they do remember what God has done for them, in order both to show gratitude and thankfulness to him, and for the encouragement of their faith and hope in him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bless the Lord, O my soul - The repetition here denotes the intensity or earnestness of the wish or desire of the psalmist. It is an emphatic calling upon his soul, that is, himself, never to forget the many favors which God was continually conferring upon him.

And forget not all his benefits - Any of his favors. This refers not to those favors in the aggregate, but it is a call to remember them in particular. The word rendered “benefits” - גמול g^emûl - means properly an act, work, doing, whether good or evil, Psalms 137:8; and then, “desert,” or what a man deserves “for” his act; “recompence.” It is rendered “deserving” in Judges 9:16; benefit, as here, in 2 Chronicles 32:25; “desert,” Psalms 28:4; “reward,” Psalms 94:2; Isaiah 3:11; Obadiah 1:15; “recompence,” Proverbs 12:14; Isaiah 35:4; Isaiah 59:18; Isaiah 66:6; Jeremiah 51:6; Lamentations 3:64; Joel 3:4, Joel 3:7. The proper reference here is to the divine “dealings,” - to what God had done - as a reason for blessing his name. His “dealings” with the psalmist had been such as to call for praise and gratitude. What those “dealings” particularly were he specifies in the following verses. The call here on his soul is not to forget these divine dealings, as laying the foundation for praise. We shall find, when we reach the end of life, that all which God has done, however dark and mysterious it may have appeared at the time, was so connected with our good as to make it a proper subject of praise and thanksgiving.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 103:2. Forget not all his benefits — Call them into recollection; particularize the chief of them; and here record them for an everlasting memorial.