Psalms 119:84 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? ”

• Psalms 119:84 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  How many are the days of thy servant? - I cannot hope to live long. I am sinking under my burdens. If I am, therefore, to see the accomplishment of my desires - my deliverance from my enemies and...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  How many [are] the (c) days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? (c) How long will you afflict your servant.

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• Psalms 119:84 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  CXIX. Praise of the Law. This is the longest and most artificial Ps. in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each beginning with one of the twenty-two letters of the Heb. a...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  many: i.e. few at the most. Compare Psalms 89:47 ; 2 Samuel 19:34 . execute judgment . vindicate.

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• Psalms 119:84 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  84. How many are the days of thy servant? etc. Some read these two clauses apart, as if the first were a general complaint of the brevity of human life, such as is to be met with in other ps...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? How many are the days of thy servants - Dost thou not know that I have few to live, and they are ful...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  How many are the days of thy servant— That is, "how long shall the days of that trouble and affliction last, which I am now forced to endure under the persecutions of Saul?"

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• Psalms 119:84 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences with the same Hebrew letter. The subject is practically the...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  As in Psalms 89:47-48 , the psalmist here utters what was the dread of each generation of Israel, a dread lest it should have passed away before the day of deliverance should arrive.

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• Psalms 119:84 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 119:1-176 IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of the Law; and the beauty and power of the psalm lie i...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Word That Stands Fast Psalms 119:81-96 They persecute wrongfully; they dig pits; they have almost consumed; they have waited to destroy; but thy Word abides steadfast. The driven soul flees...

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• Psalms 119:84 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately; but the term, "The Law," should be understood in its widest sign...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CAPH. The opening of this portion is also very beautiful, in reference to the Lord Jesus, who waited with longing expectation for the time of his being manifested unto Israel. Hence we find him, in...

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• Psalms 119:84 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  How many [are] the days of thy servant ?.... If this is to be understood of the days of his life, they were very few, as the days of every man be; and if of his days of joy and comfort, peace and pr...

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• Psalms 119:84 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  How many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? Ver. 84. How many are the days of thy servant ] i.e. Mine evil days, Proverbs 15:15 . All the...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  CAPH. Psalms 119:81 . My soul fainteth for thy salvation With longing desire, earnest expectation, and hope deferred. Mine eyes fail With looking hither and thither, and to thee for help....

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• Psalms 119:84 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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 mak...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The days; either, 1. The days of my life, as the word days is commonly used, Genesis 6:3 Job 7:1,6 Psa 39:5,6 . I have but a little while to live in the world, give me some respite before...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ; Psalms 119:23 ; Psalms 119:46 ; Psalms 119:141...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  In this Psalm we have, as it were, notes from David's pocket book. Psalms 119:73 . Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. This is a ve...

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• Psalms 119:84 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew alphabet at the head of each distich; and the couplets are mos...

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• Psalms 119:84 - The Biblical Illustrator

  My soul fainteth for Thy salvation: but I hope in Thy Word. Painful soul moods and their antidotes I. Painful moods of soul. 1. Painful yearning ( Psalms 119:81-83 ). (1) The general obje...

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• Psalms 119:84 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses, every verse in each stanza beginning with its own...

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• Psalms 119:84 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Caph. The Consolation of God's Word in the Midst of Great Troubles.

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• Psalms 119:84 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 7:6-8 ; Psalms 39:4 ; Psalms 39:5 ; Psalms 7:6 ; Psalms 89:47 ; Psalms 89:48 ; Psalms 90:12 ; Revelation 6:10 ; Revelation 6:11

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• Psalms 119:84 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The days — The days of my life. I have but a little while to live; give me some respite before I die.

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