Psalms 119:84
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute justice on my persecutors?
Leeser Tanakh
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 am become like a bottle in the smoke: [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.
85The presumptuous have dug pits for me, which is not in accordance with thy law.
Cross References
Psalms 7:6(7:7) Arise, O Lord, in thy anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me [to] the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Psalms 89:47(89:48) Remember [what] I am, what my duration is [here], for what nothingness thou hast created all sons of men!
Psalms 90:12Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with 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 →