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83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
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My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. …
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 s…
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