Psalms 103:1 - Exposition

Bless the Lord, O my soul. Repeated in Psalms 103:2 ; also at the end of the psalm; and again in Psalms 104:1 , Psalms 104:35 . To "bless" is more than to praise; it is to praise with affection and gratitude. The psalmist calls upon his own soul, and so on each individual soul, to begin the song of praise, which is to terminate in a general chorus of blessing from all creation ( Psalms 104:20-22 ). And all that is within me. "All my whole nature—intellect, emotion, feeling, sentiment—brain, heart, lungs, tongue," etc. Bless his holy Name; i.e. his manifested Personality, which is almost the same thing as himself.