Psalms 119:84
How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?
Berean Standard Bible
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
83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
85The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.
Cross References
Psalms 7:6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may present 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 →