Psalm 119:81-88 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:81-82

Here we have the psalmist, I. Longing for help from heaven: My soul faints; my eyes fail. He longs for the salvation of the Lord and for his word, that is, salvation according to the word. He is not thus eager for the creatures of fancy, but for the objects of faith, salvation from the present calamities under which he was groaning and the doubts and fears which he was oppressed with. It may be understood of the coming of the Messiah, and so he speaks in the name of the Old-Testament church;... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:83

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 onl 8000 y 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 strongest and stoutest of men! David had been of a ruddy... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:85-87

David's state was herein a type and figure of the state both of Christ and Christians that he was grievously persecuted; as there are many of his psalms, so there are many of the verses of this psalm, which complain of this, as those here. Here observe, I. The account he gives of his persecutors and their malice against him. 1. They were proud, and in their pride they persecuted him, glorying in this, that they could trample upon one who was so much cried up, and hoping to raise themselves on... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:88

Here is, 1. David in care to be found in the way of his duty. His constant desire and design are to keep the testimony of God's mouth, to keep to it as his rule and to keep hold of it as his confidence and portion for ever. This we must keep, whatever we lose. 2. David at prayer for divine grace to assist him therein: ?Quicken me after thy lovingkindness (make me alive and make me lively), so shall I keep thy testimonies,? implying that otherwise he should not keep them. We cannot proceed, nor... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:81

כ , CAPH.--The Eleventh Part . CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation , Either for temporal salvation and deliverance from enemies; which, being promised, was expected by him from the Lord; but not coming so soon as looked for, his spirits began to sink and faint: or for spiritual and eternal salvation, for a view of interest in it, for the joys and comforts of it, and for the full possession of is in heaven; and, particularly, for the promised Messiah, the author of it, often... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:82

Mine eyes fail for thy word ,.... Either with looking for the Messiah, the essential Word, that was to be, and afterwards was made flesh, and dwelt among men; or for the fulfilment of the word of promise, on which he was made to hope; but that being deferred; and he believing in hope against hope, and looking out continually till it was accomplished, his eyes grew weary, and failed him, and he was just ready to give up all expectation of it; see Psalm 77:8 ; saying, when wilt thou... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:83

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke ,.... Like a bottle made of the skins of beasts, as was usual in those times and countries: hence we read of old and new bottles, and of their rending, Judges 9:13 , Matthew 9:17 . Now such a bottle being hung up in a smoky chimney, would be dried and shrivelled up, and be good for nothing; so Jarchi's note is, "like a bottle made of skin, which is dried in smoke;' and the Targum is, "like a bottle that hangs in smoke.' It denotes the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:85

The proud have digged pits for me ,.... Laid snares and temptations in his way, to draw him into sin, and so into mischief; they sought indeed to take away his life, and formed schemes for it. The allusion is to the digging of pits for the taking of wild beasts; which shows the ill opinion they had of David, and their ill usage of him; see Psalm 7:15 ; which are not after thy law ; no, contrary to it; which forbids the digging of a pit, and leaving it uncovered, so that a neighbour's... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:81-82

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:83

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:84

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:85-87

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 119:88

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:81

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:82

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:83

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:84

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 119:85

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