Tree of Life Version
Psalms 103:18
18to those who keep His covenant, who remember to observe His instructions.
Psalms 103:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
- New International Version (NIV)with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
- English Standard Version (ESV)to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.
- New King James Version (NKJV)To such as keep His covenant, And to those who remember His commandments to do them.
Context of Psalms 103:18
16but when the wind blows over it, it is gone, and its place is no longer known. 17But the mercy of Adonai is from everlasting to everlasting on those who revere Him, His righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep His covenant, who remember to observe His instructions. 19Adonai has set up His throne in the heavens, and His kingdom rules over all. 20Bless Adonai, you angels of His: mighty in strength, performing His word, upon hearing the utterance of His word.
Read all of Psalms 103Psalms 103:18 word by word
לְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י בְרִית֑וֹ וּלְזֹכְרֵ֥י פִ֝קֻּדָ֗יו לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 103:18
- Psalms 25:10All Adonai’s ways are lovingkindness and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.
- Psalms 132:12if your children keep My covenant and My law that I will teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne forever.”
- Genesis 17:9God also said to Abraham, “As for you, My covenant you must keep, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
- Exodus 19:5Now then, if you listen closely to My voice, and keep My covenant, then you will be My own treasure from among all people, for all the earth is Mine.
- Exodus 24:8Then Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which Adonai has cut with you, in agreement with all these words.”
- Deuteronomy 7:9“Know therefore that Adonai your God, He is God—the faithful God who keeps covenant kindness for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His mitzvot,
- 2 Chronicles 34:31Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before Adonai—to follow Adonai and to observe His mitzvot, His regulations and His decrees with all his heart and with all his soul and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.
- Hebrews 8:6But now Yeshua has obtained a more excellent ministry, insofar as He is the mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted on better promises.
- Psalms 119:9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
- Deuteronomy 4:23Watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the covenant of Adonai your God, which He cut with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything that Adonai your God has forbidden you.
- Deuteronomy 6:6These words, which I am commanding you today, are to be on your heart.
- Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my mitzvot.
- Matthew 28:20teaching them to observe all I have commanded you. And remember! I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Luke 1:6Together they were righteous before Adonai, walking without fault in all His commandments and instructions.
- Acts 24:16“Therefore I do my best always to have a clear conscience before both God and men.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and appeal in the Lord Yeshua—just as you received from us the way you ought to walk and please God (as in fact you are walking)—that you keep progressing more and more.
Commentaries on Psalms 103:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18To such as keep his convenant - The spirit of which was, I will be your God; We will be thy People. From the covenant came the commandments, and their obligation to remember and do them; and on such keepers of the covenant, and doers of the commandments, God promises to pour out his mercy through all generations.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18To such as keep his covenant - To such as adhere to the arrangements of his covenant, or who are faithful on their part. God will be faithful to his part of the covenant; and where there is fidelity on the part of his people, the blessings implied in the covenant will be conferred on them and on their children. The promise is ample, and the fidelity of God is certain, but still it is true that in those promises, and in that fidelity, it is implied that…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-18Verses 15-18 How short is man's life, and uncertain! The flower of the garden is commonly more choice, and will last the longer, for being sheltered by the garden-wall, and the gardener's care; but the flower of the field, to which life is here compared, is not only withering in itself, but exposed to the cold blasts, and liable to be cropt and trod on by the beasts of the field. Such is man. God considers this, and pities him; let him consider it…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18To obey God means to be faithful and loyal to him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 17-1817-18. For similar contrast compare Psa 90:2-6; 102:27, 28.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 103
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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