Psalms 119:84
How many are the days of thy servant? When will thou execute judgment on those who persecute me?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
In Context
83For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes.
85The proud have dug pits for me, who are not according to thy law.
Cross References
Psalms 7:6Arise, O LORD, in thine anger. Lift up thyself against the rage of my adversaries, and awake for me the justice thou have commanded.
Psalms 89:47O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:84
83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. David begs God would make haste to comfort him, 1. Because his affliction was great, and therefore he was an object of God's pity: Lord, make haste to help me, for I have become like a bottle in the smoke, a leathern bottle, which, if it hung any while in the smoke, was not only blackened with soot, but dried, and parched, and shrivelled up. David was thus wasted by age, and sickness, and sorrow. See how affliction will mortify the… Read the whole commentary →