Praying Through Psalm 103

I'm working my way through If God Already Knows Why Pray?. This book teaches you about prayer by examining The Lord's Prayer. In the section about "Hallowed be your name", the reader is encouraged to pray through Psalm 103. The intent is that the reader will learn more about hallowing God's name in prayer. I've decided to pray through this psalm several times a day for a week as this is a part of prayer I struggle with. I'd challenge anybody reading this to pray through Psalm 103 for a week as well and see what God will reveal to you. I look forward to what He reveals to me.

Bless the Lord, O My Soul

103 Of David. ^y

¹ Bless the Lord, O my soul,

and all that is within me,

bless his holy name!

^{2 y} Bless the Lord, O my soul,

and ^zforget not all his benefits,

³ who ^aforgives all your iniquity,

who ^bheals all your diseases,

⁴ who ^credeems your life from the pit,

who ^dcrowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

⁵ who ^esatisfies you with good

so that your youth is renewed like ^fthe eagle’s.

⁶ The Lord works ^grighteousness

and justice for all who are oppressed.

⁷ He made known his ^hways to Moses,

his ^iacts to the people of Israel.

⁸ The Lord is ^jmerciful and gracious,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

^{9 k} He will not always chide,

nor will he ^lkeep his anger forever.

¹⁰ He does not deal with us ^maccording to our sins,

nor repay us according to our iniquities.

¹¹ For ^nas high as the heavens are above the earth,

so great is his ^osteadfast love toward ^pthose who fear him;

¹² as far as the east is from the west,

so far does he ^qremove our transgressions from us.

¹³ As ^ra father shows compassion to his children,

so the Lord shows compassion ^pto those who fear him.

¹⁴ For he knows our frame;¹

he ^sremembers that we are dust.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like ^tgrass;

he flourishes like ^ua flower of the field;

¹⁶ for ^vthe wind passes over it, and

^w it is gone,

and ^xits place knows it no more.

¹⁷ But ^ythe steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on ^pthose who fear him,

and his righteousness to ^zchildren’s children,

¹⁸ to those who ^akeep his covenant

and ^bremember to do his commandments.

¹⁹ The Lord has ^cestablished his throne in the heavens,

and his ^dkingdom rules over all.

²⁰ Bless the Lord, O you ^ehis angels,

you ^fmighty ones who ^gdo his word,

obeying the voice of his word!

²¹ Bless the Lord, all his ^hhosts,

his ^iministers, who do his will!

^{22 j} Bless the Lord, all his works,

in all places of his dominion.

^k Bless the Lord, O my soul!

^y ver. 22; Ps. 104:1

^y [See ver. 1 above]

^z Deut. 6:12; 8:11

^a Ex. 34:7; Isai. 33:24; Matt. 9:2; Mark 2:5; [Luke 7:47]

^b Ps. 107:20; 147:3; Ex. 15:26; [Matt. 8:17]

^c See Ps. 56:13

^d [Ps. 5:12]

^e Ps. 107:9

^f Isai. 40:31

^g Ps. 146:7

^h Ex. 33:13; [Ps. 25:4]

^i [Ps. 78:11; Ex. 34:10]

^j See Ps. 86:15

^k Isai. 57:16

^l Ps. 30:5; Jer. 3:5, 12; Mic. 7:18

^m Ezra 9:13

^n See Ps. 36:5

^o Ps. 117:2

^p ver. 13, 17; Luke 1:50

^q [Isai. 38:17; 43:25; Mic. 7:19]

^r Mal. 3:17

^p [See ver. 11 above]

¹ Or knows how we are formed

^s Ps. 78:39

^t Ps. 90:5

^u See Job 14:2

^v Isai. 40:7

^w Ps. 37:36

^x See Job 7:10

^y Ps. 25:6

^p [See ver. 11 above]

^z Ex. 20:5, 6

^a Deut. 7:9

^b Ps. 19:8

^c Ps. 11:4; 93:2

^d Ps. 47:2; Dan. 4:17

^e Ps. 148:2; [Luke 2:13]

^f Ps. 78:25

^g Matt. 6:10

^h Gen. 32:2; Josh. 5:14; 1 Kin. 22:19

^i Ps. 104:4; Dan. 7:10; Heb. 1:14

^j Ps. 145:10

^k ver. 1, 2

The Holy Bible : English Standard Version. Wheaton : Standard Bible Society, 2001, S. Ps 103:1-22