Psalms 119:84
How short is the life of your servant! when will you give your decision against those who are attacking me?
Bible in Basic English
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 black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
85The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.
Cross References
Psalms 7:6\7:5\Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
Psalms 89:47\89:46\How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?
Psalms 90:12So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get 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 →