🎵WEB · Psalms 103:14

What does Psalms 103:14 mean?

"For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust."

— Psalms 103:14 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

11

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

12

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

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Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

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For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

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As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

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For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

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But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

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