The Meaning of Psalms 103:9 Explained

Psalms 103:9

KJV: He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

YLT: Not for ever doth He strive, Nor to the age doth He watch.

Darby: He will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger for ever.

ASV: He will not always chide; Neither will he keep his anger for ever.

Discover Psalms 103:9

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Psalms 103:9?

MEANING: What does Psalms 103:9 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Psalms 103:9 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Psalms 103:9?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

He will not always  chide:  neither will he keep  [his anger] for ever. 

What does Psalms 103:9 Mean?

Context Summary

Psalms 103:1-12 - The Lord's Abundant Mercies
David's name heads this peerless psalm, which expresses, as none other, the soul of the universal Church and of the individual Christian. Notice the present tenses throughout these verses. God's tender dealings run parallel with our lives. He is never weary nor exhausted. When once He begins, He keeps on. Let us enumerate the blessings that He gives in such unbroken abundance, and as the fingers tell the successive beads, praise Him: forgiveness; healing, Exodus 15:26; redemption from perils and accidents, seen and unseen; the crowns that He places on our unworthy heads; entire satisfaction, Psalms 36:8; Isaiah 58:11; perennial youth.
It was a proverb among Orientals that the eagle literally grows younger. This is the psalmist's reference in Psalms 103:5. For us it means that the life which is fed from the eternal springs is eagle-like in royal strength and sunward flight. Ways or plans are revealed to the inner circle; the ordinary congregation knows only acts. The Father does chide, but only till we put sin away. Conceive the infinite spaces of East and West-such is the distance of forgiven sin from us. It is impossible that the blame or curse of it should ever return upon the redeemed soul. [source]

Chapter Summary: Psalms 103

1  An exhortation to bless God for his mercy
5  And for the constancy thereof

What do the individual words in Psalms 103:9 mean?

Not always He will strive [with us] nor forever will He keep [His anger]
לֹֽא־ לָנֶ֥צַח יָרִ֑יב וְלֹ֖א לְעוֹלָ֣ם יִטּֽוֹר

לָנֶ֥צַח  always 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular
Root: נֵצַח  
Sense: eminence, perpetuity, strength, victory, enduring, everlastingness.
יָרִ֑יב  He  will  strive  [with  us] 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: רִיב  
Sense: to strive, contend.
וְלֹ֖א  nor 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
לְעוֹלָ֣ם  forever 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular
Root: עֹולָם  
Sense: long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world.
יִטּֽוֹר  will  He  keep  [His  anger] 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: נָטַר 
Sense: to keep, keep guard, reserve, maintain.

What are the major concepts related to Psalms 103:9?

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Similar Scriptures for Psalms 103:9

Isaiah 57:16 [8]
Psalms 30:5 [7]
Jeremiah 3:5 [6]
Micah 7:18-19 [4]
Jeremiah 3:12 [3]