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Psalm 103:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 103:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 He satisfies your years with good things
and renews your youth like an eagle’s.[a]
6 The Lord performs acts of righteousness
and administers justice for all who are oppressed.
7 [b]He made known his ways[c] to Moses,
his wondrous deeds to the people of Israel.
Footnotes
- Psalm 103:5 Like an eagle’s: because of its acknowledged long span of life, which at times reaches one hundred years, the eagle was regarded as a symbol of perennial youth and vigor (see Isa 40:31). It was thought that when an eagle became old and its eyes grew dim, it flew toward the sun, so that the film was burned away from its eyes and its plumage was renewed by the sun’s scorching rays.
- Psalm 103:7 God made known his ways to Moses on Mount Sinai, telling him that his attitude toward human beings and his great works find their inspiration in his loving kindness. Passing mysteriously before Moses, God cried out: “The Lord, the Lord, a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and fidelity, who shows mercy to thousands. He forgives iniquity and transgression and sin, but will by no means forgive the iniquity of the fathers, visiting it upon their sons and their sons’ sons, to the third and fourth generation” (Ex 34:6f).
- Psalm 103:7 His ways: see note on Ps 25:10.
