Psalms 119:84
Howe many are the dayes of thy seruant? When wilt thou execute iudgement on them that persecute me?
Geneva Bible 1599
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 like a bottell in the smoke: yet doe I not forget thy statutes.
85The proude haue digged pittes for mee, which is not after thy Lawe.
Cross References
Psalms 7:6Arise, O Lord, in thy wrath, and lift vp thy selfe against the rage of mine enemies, and awake for mee according to the iudgement that thou hast appointed.
Psalms 89:47Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?
Psalms 90:12Teach vs so to nomber our dayes, that we may apply our heartes vnto wisdome.
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 →