Redeemed from Destruction
D. Dickson. Psalm 103:4 Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies; By destruction here he meaneth, not only the danger of being killed by his enemies, but also and especially the state of condemnation and perishing in God's wrath, from which the man justified is redeemed by the Mediator. 1. The benefit of preservation from eternal death is given unto the man, to whom all iniquity is forgiven; for here these benefits are joined the one with the other. 2. The deliverances which are given to believers, as well bodily as spiritual, temporal as well as everlasting, do come to us in the way of redemption, made by our kind and faithful kinsman, Jesus Christ. 3. A man must be sensible of the merit of sin, and see himself in the state of perdition for sin, before he can put a right estimation upon his delivery; he must count himself a lost man till the Lord's Redeemer deliver him. 4. The favour which God bestoweth upon a believer is not in giving unto him one or two, or some few evidences of His love and mercy, but in a constant compassing of him on every hand, in everything; so that He shall turn him about to what act He will, he is circled round about with love and mercy, supplying wants, preventing, or mitigating and seasoning, his troubles, reclaiming him from sin, and directing him in God's way. 5. The evidences of God's kindness and mercy to a man is not only a means to glorify God, but also a means to our respect and honour; yea, and a crown of glory on the head of the believer, in the sight of all who look upon him. (D. Dickson.) Parallel Verses KJV: Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; WEB: who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;