Psalms 119:84
How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?
BSB
ASV
How many are the days of thy servant? When wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
KJV
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
"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?
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
leads to
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.
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Psalms 7:6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
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Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
