Psalms 103:4
who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
BSB
ASV
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
KJV
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
redemption as God's ongoing, present-tense mercy toward a life, not only a past national act
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Who crowns you in mercy and compassions. Who crowns you. When he has redeemed, then he crowns. And he crowns, not because of your merits, but because of his own mercy. "O Lord, you have crowned us as with a shield of your good will." See what he says, O Lord, you have crowned us as with a shield of your good will. Does anyone crown with a shield? Surely he who crowns, crowns with flowers, crowns with gold, crowns with the other kinds of crowns. Does anyone crown with a shield?
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction. By purchase and by power the Lord redeems us from the spiritual death into which we had fallen, and from the eternal death which would have been its consequence. Had not the death penalty of sin been removed, our forgiveness and healing would have been incomplete portions of salvation, fragments only, and but of small value, but the removal of the guilt and power of sin is fitly attended by the reversal of the sentence of death which had been passed upon us.
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Psalms 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
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I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I…
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Psalms 8:5You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
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You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death…
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Psalms 34:22The LORD redeems His servants, and none who take refuge in Him will be condemned.
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But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,
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