Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 119:84
The days — The days of my life. I have but a little while to live; give me some respite before I die.
The days — The days of my life. I have but a little while to live; give me some respite before I die.
Verse Psalms 119:84. _HOW MANY_ ARE _THE DAYS OF THY SERVANTS_] Dost thou not know that I have few to live, and they are full of trouble? _WHEN WILT THOU EXECUTE JUDGMENT ON THEM THAT PERSECUTE ME?_...
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 my t...
Psalms 119 The Law Written on Their Hearts and the Praise of the Word This is the longest and most perfect Psalm in the whole collection. It is an alphabetical acrostic. It is composed of 22 section...
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. alph...
MANY: i.e. few at the most. Compare Psalms 89:47; 2 Samuel 19:34. EXECUTE JUDGMENT. vindicate....
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?...
PSALMS 119 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Jehovah's Will in Relation to Human Character and Conduct, celebrated in Twenty-two Alphabetical Stanzas, and by the aid of Eight Comprehensive Synonyms. ANALYSIS (The...
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? The...
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 s...
HOW MANY, etc.] i.e. my days are few....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE WORD OF GOD PSALMS 119 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL OBEY ME" (JOHN 14:15)....
As in Psalms 89:47, 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....
כַּ מָּ֥ה יְמֵֽי ־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ מָתַ֬י תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה...
Psalms 119:1 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 in the un...
THE WORD THAT STANDS FAST Psalms 119:81 They persecute wrongfully; they dig pits; they have almost consumed; they have waited to destroy; but thy Word abides steadfast. The driven soul flees to the...
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 signi...
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....
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 th...
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 psalms, and...
Psalms 119 is in general the law written in the heart. This gives it an important place in the series of psalms. It is found distinctly connected too with Israel's sorrows in the last days and their p...
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 prosp...
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 days...
_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. _I am b...
_ Caph._ The Consolation of God's Word in the Midst of Great Troubles....
How many are the days of Thy servant? This question arises in his heart on account of the shortness of human life, this fact causing him to fear that he may not live long enough to see himself vindica...
81-88 The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet fai...
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 I die, and...
Psalms 119:84 days H3117 servant H5650 execute H6213 (H8799) judgment H4941 persecute H7291 (H8802) How -...
Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The ship rocks, but the anchor holds; the singer is ready to faint, but he is not ready to despair. He knows where his res...
Psalms 119:81. _My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word._ The psalmist was so full of longings, hungerings, thirstings, for God's salvation that he had come even to faintness throu...
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 very...
CONTENTS: The excellency and usefulness of the divine revelation set forth and exhortation to all to make it their meditation and to be governed by it. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Great b...
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 most...
_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). (1) The general objects of this...
_How many are the days of Thy servant?_ when wilt Thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? A SUGGESTIVE QUESTION I. God’s knowledge of the length of man’s life. To Him there are no accident...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 119:1. This psalm celebrates the gift of God’s law as the perfect guide for life. Its theme is echoed in Psalms 19:1 and in such wisdom psa
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;...
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 proper...
Now as we get to Psalms 119:1-176, it is an extremely difficult psalm for exposition, because each section seems to be more or less independent of in itself, and each verse, many times, almost indepen...
Job 7:6; Psalms 39:4; Psalms 39:5; Psalms 7:6; Psalms 89:47;...