תהלים 103:2

Hebrew Modern Translation

ברכי נפשי את יהוה ואל תשכחי כל גמוליו׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
נפשי את-יהוה ואל-תשכחי כל-גמוליו

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
בָּרֲכִ֣י נַ֭פְשִׁי אֶת־יְהוָ֑ה וְאַל־תִּ֝שְׁכְּחִ֗י כָּל־גְּמוּלָֽיו ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
בָּרֲכִי נַפְשִׁי אֶת־יְהוָה וְאַל־תִּשְׁכְּחִי כָּל־גְּמוּלָֽיו ׃

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.