Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 103:10
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
10. God has punished Israel less than their iniquities deserved. Cp. Ezr 9:13.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He hath not dealt with us after our sins – All may say this, and this is a ground of thanksgiving and praise. It is a matter for which we should render unceasing praise that God has not done to us as our sins deserved. Who of us can fail to stand in awe and to tremble when we think what God might have justly done to us; what sufferings he might have brought upon us, which would have been no more than we have deserved; what pain of body, what distress of mind, what anguish of bereavement – what sorrow, danger, sickness, losses – we might have suffered before the point would be reached at which it could be said that we were suffering more than a holy and just God might properly inflict on us.
Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities – That is, he has not inflicted suffering on us that could be regarded in any proper sense as a just retribution for what we have done; or, so that it could properly be said that the one fairly measured the other.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Psa 103:10
He hath not dealt with us after our sins.
Gods mercy to sinners
I. The views which this declaration presents to us of the Divine conduct.
1. He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve.
2. He has not dealt with us as He has dealt with others. This especially will be a reflection greatly beneficial to our minds, when we enumerate our mercies of a personal and relative kind–our mercies of a civil and religious kind–our mercies temporal and spiritual, the unexpected concurrence of events overruled by Divine Providence in our favour, the staying of the rough wind, in the day of His east wind.
3. His dealings towards us have always been mingled with mercy even in the severest dispensations.
II. The practical uses we should make of this declaration,
1. It should lead us faithfully to inquire what has been the effect of chastening and trial on us. Are we brought to humility, self-abasement, penitential sorrow?
2. The subject ought to excite adoring gratitude for the love, the patience, the wisdom, and the faithfulness of your Father in heaven.
3. Let the subject teach you to cherish humble confidence. Whatever be the issue of His conduct towards you, remember it must be for the best.
4. Let there be practical imitation of the Divine conduct in your judgment towards others–in your temper towards others–in your patience, forbearance, in your longsuffering, in your forgiveness. (J. Fletcher, D.D.)
The mercy of God
I. What have we deserved during the past year? We are painfully conscious that we have been guilty of sins and iniquities, heinous and aggravated because committed against light and knowledge. We have not deserved the least of Gods mercies. Let us be humble, penitent.
II. What have we received during the past year? The gifts of God to us are as innumerable as they are inestimable.
1. Think of temporal mercies–health, food, clothing, home, friends.
2. Think of spiritual mercies–Bible, Sabbath, sanctuary, means of grace, hope of glory.
III. What have we returned during the past year? The earth has received the showers and sunshine, and in return has given foliage, flowers, and fruits. Have our hearts and lives yielded fruit to the glory of God for all His goodness to us? Or have our hearts been like the barren rock or desert sands, giving no response or return for heavenly influences received? (F. W. Brown.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 10. He has not dealt unity us after our sins] He has never apportioned our punishment to our sins, nor has he regulated the exercise of his mercy by our merits.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He hath punished us less than our iniquities have deserved, as was confessed, Ezr 9:13.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
He hath not dealt with us after our sins,…. God deals with his people, and deals with them roundly, for their sins, reproving them by his Spirit, and by his ministers, and by his chastising rod; but not after or according to them, or as they deserve; in this David acknowledges himself and other saints, with whom he joins, to be sinners, to have been guilty of sins, as none live without them; and that God had taken notice of them, and chastised them for them; but in great moderation, and not according to the due demerit of them:
nor rewarded us according to our iniquities; had he, if every transgression had received its just recompence of reward, they must have been sent to hell; the lake burning with fire and brimstone must have been their portion; the wages of sin is eternal death: the reason why God deals not with nor rewards his people according to the due desert of their sins is because Christ has bore them, and the chastisement of them, and made satisfaction to divine justice for them; see Ezr 9:13.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins The Psalmist here proves from experience, or from the effect, what he has stated concerning the Divine character; for it was entirely owing to the wonderful forbearance of God that the Israelites had hitherto continued to exist. Let each of us, as if he had said, examine his own life; let us inquire in how many ways we have provoked the wrath of God? or, rather, do we not continually provoke it? and yet he not only forbears to punish us, but bountifully maintains those whom he might justly destroy.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins Although the Lord had often chided the Israelites for their sins, and allowed his “anger,” at times, to break forth in just punishment, his judgments had never been as severe as the occasion merited, but mercy had ever tempered justice in all his dealings with them.
Nor rewarded us A repetition of the same thought, making a synonymous parallelism.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 103:10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Ver. 10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins ] Heb. our errors, our involuntary and unavoidable infirmities.
According to our iniquities
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
sins. Hebrew. chata. App-44.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
dealt: Psa 130:3, Ezr 9:13, Neh 9:31, Job 11:6, Lam 3:22, Dan 9:18, Dan 9:19, Hab 3:2
Reciprocal: Lev 16:22 – not inhabited Jdg 20:47 – six hundred 1Ki 11:34 – Howbeit Job 42:8 – lest Psa 28:4 – the work Psa 119:124 – Deal Jon 4:6 – the Lord Luk 15:20 – But
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
103:10 He hath not {g} dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
(g) Who have proved by continual experience that his mercy has always prevailed against our offences.