Psalms 119:85
Proud people have dug for me pits people who do not conform to your law.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
In Context
84How few are the days of your servant! When will you judge those who harass me?
86All your commandments are trusty. With falsehood they harass me: help me.
Cross References
Psalms 7:15a pit they have made and dug; but into the hole that they made they will fall.
Psalms 36:11Let no arrogant foot tread upon me, no wicked hand drive me to exile.
Psalms 119:78Put the proud to shame, who have wronged me falsely: I will muse on your precepts.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:85
84 How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? Here, I. David prays against the instruments of his troubles, that God would make haste to execute judgment on those that persecuted him. He prays not for power to avenge himself (he bore no malice to any), but that God would take to himself the vengeance that belonged to him, and would repay ( Rom. xii. 19 ), as the God that sits in the throne judging right. There is a day coming, and a great and terrible day it… Read the whole commentary →