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84How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
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So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? …
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? …
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 te…
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