Psalms 119:84

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
days	יְמֵֽי ye.mei-	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine plural construct
servant	עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ 'av.De.kha	H5650	a servant · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
execute	תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה ta.'a.Seh	H6213	to do or make · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular
judgment	מִשְׁפָּֽט mish.Pat	H4941	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
persecute	בְרֹדְפַ֣י ve.ro.de.Fai	H7291	to run after (usually with hostile intent · preposition + verb, qal active participle, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix

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Cross-references

Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Revelation 6:10-11 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on th…
Psalms 7:6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commande…
Psalms 39:4-5 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Psalms 89:47-48 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Job 7:6-8 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:84

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 12:19), as the God that sits in the throne judging right. There is a day coming, and a great and terrible day it will be, when God will execute judgment on all the proud persecutors of his people, tribulation to those that troubled them; Enoch foretold it (Jde 1:14), whose prophecy perhaps David here had an eye to; and that day we are to look for and pray for the hastening of. Come, Lord Jesus, com…

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John Gill on Psalms 119:84

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 prosperity, they were fewer still; but if of days of adversity and affliction, which seems to be the sense, they were many indeed; when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? good men have their persecutors; there is a judgment that will be executed on them, if not here, yet hereafter; it is a righteous thing with God to do it; it is often deferred when the saints, through zeal for the glory of God, and the honour of his justice, as well as for their own deliverance and comfort, are at…

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John Calvin on Psalms 119:81-88

Psalm 119:81-88 k 81. My soul hath fainted for thy salvation: I hope in thy word. k 82. My eyes have waxed dim in looking for thy promise, and I say, When wilt thou comfort me? k 83. For I have been as a bottle in the smoke; and yet I have not forgotten thy statutes. k 84. How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on my persecutors? k 85. The proud have digged pits for me, which thing is not according to thy law. k 86. All thy commandments are truth; they persecute we deceitfully; therefore help thou me. k 87. They have almost consumed me upon the earth; yet I have not forsaken thy statutes. k 88. Quicken me according to thy goodness; and I will keep the testimon…

The Church Fathers

"How many are the days of Your servant? When will You be avenged of them that persecute me?" [Psalm 119:84]. In the Apocalypse, [Revelation 6:10-11] these are the words of the Martyrs, and long-suffering is enjoined them until the number of their brethren be fulfilled. The body of Christ then is asking concerning its days, what they are to be in this world, and that no man might suppose that the Church would cease to exist here before the end of the world came, and that some time would elapse in this world, while the Church was now no more on earth; therefore, when he had enquired concerning the days, he added also respecting the judgment, showing indeed that the Church would exist on earth until the judgment, when vengeance shall fall upon Her persecutors. But if any one wonder why he should ask that question, to which when asked by the disciples, their Master replied, "It is not for you to know the times and the seasons;" [Acts 1:7] why should we not believe that in this passage of the Psalm it was prophesied that they should ask this very question, and that the words of the Church, which were so long before uttered here, were fulfilled in their question?
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 119

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Dictionary and topics

Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…

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Psalms 119:84

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:84

John Gill on Psalms 119:84

John Calvin on Psalms 119:81-88

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 119:84

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:84

John Gill on Psalms 119:84

John Calvin on Psalms 119:81-88

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:81-88

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 119:81-88