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 s...