the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Psalms 103:5
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He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagle's!
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.
Who satisfies your desire with good things, [So that] your vitality is renewed like the eagle.
He satisfies me with good things and makes me young again, like the eagle.
who satisfies your life with good things, so your youth is renewed like an eagle's.
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things]; [so that] thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the [soaring] eagle.
who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Which fillith thi desijr in goodis; thi yongthe schal be renulid as the yongthe of an egle.
who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Each day that we live, he provides for our needs and gives us the strength of a young eagle.
Who satisfieth thy desire with good things, So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.
He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.
he contents you with good as long as you live, so that your youth is renewed like an eagle's.
Who satisfieth thine old age with good [things]; thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
He gives us plenty of good things. He makes us young again, like an eagle that grows new feathers.
Who satisfieth thine old age with good things; so that Thy youth is renewed like the eagle.
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things: so that thy youth is renewed like the Eagles.
He fills my years with good things and I am made young again like the eagle.
who satisfies you with good as long as you live so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Which satisfieth thy mouth wt good things: and thy youth is renued like the eagles.
Who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagles.
He fills my life with good things, so that I stay young and strong like an eagle.
Who satisfieth, with good, thine age, Thy youth, reneweth itself like an eagle.
(102-5) Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle’s.
who satisfies you with good as long as you live so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good thynges: causyng thy youth lyke an Egles to be renued.
who satisfies thy desire with good things: so that thy youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.
He satisfies you with good things;your youth is renewed like the eagle.
Who satisfies your desire with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
who satisfies your life with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
who satisfies your desire with good; your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Who is satisfying with good thy desire, Renew itself as an eagle doth thy youth.
Which satisfieth thy desyre with good thinges, makynge the yonge and lusty as an Aegle.
Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.
Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.
Who satisfies your years with good things,So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
satisfieth: Psalms 23:5, Psalms 63:5, Psalms 65:4, Psalms 104:28, Psalms 107:9, Psalms 115:15, Psalms 115:16, 1 Timothy 6:17
thy youth: Isaiah 40:31, Hosea 2:15, 2 Corinthians 4:16
Reciprocal: Genesis 48:15 - fed me Joshua 14:11 - General Job 29:20 - renewed Job 33:25 - return Job 39:27 - the eagle Joel 2:26 - ye shall
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things,.... With the good things in the heart of God, with his favour and lovingkindness, as with marrow and fatness; with the good things in the hands of Christ, with the fulness of grace in him, with pardon, righteousness, and salvation by him; with the good things of the Spirit of God, his gifts and graces; and with the provisions of the Lord's house, the goodness and fatness of it; these he shows unto his people, creates hungerings and thirstings in them after them, sets their hearts a longing after them, and then fills and satisfies them with them: hence the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions render it, "who filleth thy desire with good things": the word used has sometimes the signification of an ornament; wherefore Aben Ezra interprets it of the soul, which is the glory and ornament of the body, and renders it, "who satisfieth thy soul with good things"; which is not amiss: "so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's"; not the youth of the body, or the juvenile vigour of it; nor the outward prosperity of it; but the youth of grace, or a renewal of spiritual love and affection to divine and heavenly persons and things; of holy zeal for God, his ways and worship; for Christ, his Gospel, truths, and ordinances; of spiritual joy and comfort, strength, liveliness, and activity, as formerly were in the days of espousals, in the youth of first conversion, or when first made acquainted with the best things; so that though the outward man may decay, yet the inward man is renewed day by day: and this is said to be "like the eagle's", whose youth and strength are renewed, as some observe a, by dropping their feathers, and having new ones, by feeding upon the blood of slain creatures; and whereas, when they are grown old, the upper part of their bill grows over the lower part b, so that they are not able, to eat, but must die through want; Austin c says, that by rubbing it against a rock, it comes to its use of eating, and so recovers its strength: but there is no need to have recourse to any of these things; for as the old age of au eagle is lively and vigorous, like the youth of another creature; so it is here signified, that saints through the grace of God, even in old age, become fat and flourishing, and fruitful, and are steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, run and are not weary, walk and faint not, Isaiah 40:31, all which are inestimable mercies, and the Lord is to be praised for them.
a Ambrosii Opera, tom. 5. p. 78. b Aristot. de Animal. l. 9. c. 32. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 3. c Opera, tom. 8. in Psal. 102. fol. 474. c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things - The word translated âthy mouthâ here is rendered in the Chaldee âthy age;â in the Arabic, the Septuagint, and the Latin Vulgate, âthy desire;â in the Syriac, âthy body;â DeWette renders it, âthy age.â So also Tholuck. The Hebrew word - ×¢×× âaÌdıÌy - is rendered âornamentsâ in Exodus 33:4-6; 2 Samuel 1:24; Isaiah 49:18; Jeremiah 2:32; Jeremiah 4:30; Ezekiel 7:20; Ezekiel 16:11, Ezekiel 16:17 (margin,); Ezekiel 23:40; and âmouthâ in Psalms 32:9, as here. These are the only places in which it occurs. Gesenius renders it here âage,â and supposes that it stands in contrast with the word âyouthâ in the other part of the verse. The connection would seem to demand this, though it is difficult to make it out from any usage of the Hebrew word. Professor Alexander renders it âthy soulâ - from the supposition that the Hebrew word âornamentâ is used as if in reference to the idea that the âsoulâ is the chief glory or ornament of man. This seems, however, to be a very forced explanation. I confess myself unable to determine the meaning.
So that thy youth is renewed like the eagleâs - Compare Isaiah 40:31. The allusion, to which there is supposed to be a reference here, is explained in the notes at that passage. Whatever may be true in regard to the supposed fact pertaining to the eagle, about its renewing its strength and vigor in old age, the meaning here is simply that the strength of the psalmist in old age became like the strength of the eagle. Sustained by the bounty of God in his old age he became, as it were, young again.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 103:5. Who satisfieth thy mouth —
5. For continual communications of spiritual and temporal good; so that the vigour of his mind was constantly supported and increased.
Thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. — There is such a vast variety of the eagle, or genus Falco, that it is not easy to determine which is meant here. The Hebrew × ×©×¨ neser is a general name for such as were known in the land of Judea; which were probably such as belong to the genus Aquila, comprehending forty-one species and seven varieties.
There are as many legends of the eagle among the ancient writers, as there are of some saints in the calendar; and all equally true. Even among modern divines, Bible Dictionary men, and such like, the most ridiculous tales concerning this bird continue to be propagated; and no small portion of them have been crowded into comments on this very verse. One specimen my old Psalter affords, which, for its curiosity, I shall lay before the reader: -
Trans. Newed sal be als of aeren thi youthed.
Par. The arne when he is greved with grete elde, his neb waxis so gretely, that he may nogt open his mouth and take mete: bot then he smytes his neb to the stane, and has away the solgh, and than he gaes til mete, and be commes yong a gayne. Swa Criste duse a way fra us oure elde of syn and mortalite, that settes us to ete oure brede in hevene, and newes us in hym.
The plain English of all this is: -
"When the arne [eagle, from the Anglo-Saxon [A.S.], a word which Dr. Jamieson has not entered in his dictionary] is oppressed with old age, his bill grows so much that he cannot open his mouth in order to take meat. He then smites his bill against a stone, and breaks off the slough - the excrescence that prevented him from eating; and then he goes to his ordinary food, and becomes young again. So Christ takes away from us our old age of sin and death, and gives us to eat of that bread which comes down from heaven: and thus gives us a new life in himself."
I believe the meaning of the psalmist is much more simple: he refers to the moulting of birds, which, in most, takes place annually, in which they cast their old feathers and get a new plumage. To express this, he might as well have chosen any bird, as this is common to all the feathered race; but he chose the king of the birds, because of his bulk, his strength, and vivacity.
The long life of the eagle might have induced the psalmist to give it the preference. An eagle was nine years in the possession of Owen Holland, Esq., of Conway, in Wales, and had lived thirty-two years in the possession of the gentleman who made it a present to him: but of its previous age, for it came from Ireland, we are not informed. Keysler relates that an eagle died at Vienna, after a confinement of one hundred and four years!
The eagle can subsist a long time without food. That first mentioned above, through the neglect of a servant, was twenty-one days without food, and yet survived this long fast.
The meaning and moral of the psalmist are not difficult of comprehension. The Israelites, when redeemed from their captivity, should be so blessed by their God that they should re-acquire their political strength and vigour; and should be so quickened by the Divine Spirit, that old things should be passed away, and all things become new.
