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How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
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A Cry of Urgency, Not Curiosity
Commentators agree the psalmist isn't asking God to reveal his lifespan. Instead, he's using a rhetorical question to express extreme urgency. As scholars like Albert Barnes and John Calvin explain, the plea means, "Lord, I feel I cannot endure this persecution much longer. Please act quickly to deliver me before my time runs out." It's a cry born from the feeling that his life is short and his affliction is long.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
How many are the days of thy servant? — I cannot hope to live long. I am sinking under my burdens. If I am, therefore, to see the a…
19th Century
Anglican
As in Psalms 89:47-48, the psalmist here utters what was the dread of each generation of Israel, a dread that it might have passed away before the …
Baptist
How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on them that persecute me?
"I am not going to live here foreve…
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16th Century
Protestant
How many are the days of thy servant? etc. Some interpret these two clauses separately, as if the first were a general complaint about the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How many [are] the days of your servant ? &c.] If this is to be understood of the days of his life, they were very f…
The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his enemies, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed from looking out for this …
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