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Posted by Psalms on Monday, 29 October 2012
Psalms 119:81-88
(81) CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
(82) Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
(83) For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
(84) How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
(85) The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
(86) All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
(87) They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
(88) Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
119:81–88. The psalmist’s enemies have brought him to the lowest condition of anguish and depression; yet he is faithful to the law and trustful in his God. This octave is the midnight of the psalm, and very dark and black it is. Stars, however, shine out, and the last verse gives promise of the dawn. The strain will after this become more cheerful; but meanwhile it should minister comfort to us to see so eminent a servant of God so hard used by the ungodly: evidently in our own persecutions no strange thing has happened unto us.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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