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81 My soul faints for Your salvation, But I hope in Your word.
82 My eyes fail from searching Your word, Saying, “When will You comfort me?”
83 For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, Yet I do not forget Your statutes.
84 How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?
85 The proud have dug pits for me, Which is not according to Your law.
86 All Your commandments are faithful; They persecute me wrongfully; Help me!
87 They almost made an end of me on earth, But I did not forsake Your precepts.
88 Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.
VS 81
81 My soul faints for Your salvation, But I hope in Your word.
1. The word salvation here is not salvation from sin and the power of sin. It is salvation from sorrow. (It means rescue)
a. There is salvation form sorrow as well as situations. We do not know what the writers situations was. Sometimes our situations seem hopeless.
b. Tell story of taking off in a plane. Clouds, then sunshine. The word of God in like the shining sun.
VS 82
82 My eyes fail from searching Your word, Saying, “When will You comfort me?”
1. It seems his “dry spell” had been going on for some time. It was like he didn’t have God’s to comfort him.
a. Elab someone who is suffering sickness waiting for healing.
b. John the Baptist. He preached and many were baptized. He preached of the coming of the Messiah.
c. But then he was in prison, maybe waiting for to be set free. Days, weeks, it seemed dim.
d. So he sends a messenger to Jesus. Mat 11:1-5
e. There are times when the bible seems silent, or seems to be saying the wrong things.
f. It’s not the Bible that is wrong but our viewpoint or interpretation. James 5:13-16
g. When healing doesn’t place some may doubt scripture, or think something is wrong with their faith. (Snake handlers)
h. Nowhere in scripture does it say that God is going heal every believer. If that were true no one would die.
i. Paul had some kind of ailment.
j. Sometimes the healing that we need is revival in our lives.
VS 83
83 For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, Yet I do not forget Your statutes.
1. Bottle here is referring to wineskin (elab)
a. Elab on the smell of smoke.
b. Elab on what smoke would do to the wineskins.
c. The writer here is like the wineskin, and the smoke is the penetrating, pervasive, polluting influence of the world.
d. He felt like God could no longer use him. The bad odor of the world spoiled everything. He needed restoration.
e. There was one thing to get rid of the smoke, God’s word.
g. We are not going to escape the world. We have to live in it-rub shoulders with it. Elab
h. It can cause us to feel filthy; God’s word will restore us, and encourage us.
VS 84
84 How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?
1. His question is, why is God delaying? Why is He waiting so long? His prayers seemed to be going unanswered.
a. Sometimes God is silent, and sometimes He speaking we just are not listening.
b. We see time and time again where we learn about waiting on God.
c. We have to learn to wait and know that God knows best. We are limited to what we understand, at least at the time.
VS 85
85 The proud have dug pits for me, Which is not according to Your law.
1. Does not set traps for his people. Satan does, and he (Satan) uses people to do his dirty work.
a. Potiphar’s wife used looks, lust, and lies to trap Joseph.
b. The rulers in Babylon used a law Elab to trap Daniel.
c. Satan will use things to trap us, God will use things to direct us.
VS 86
86 All Your commandments are faithful; They persecute me wrongfully; Help me!
1. He is going through persecution and needs God’s help. “Help thou me”
a. God doesn’t need long speeches. We are not heard by much speaking.
b. His prayer is very specific. He wants help and he wants God to help.
c. He doesn’t tell God how to help, he just wants His help.
d. This how we need to pray.
VS 87
87 They almost made an end of me on earth, But I did not forsake Your precepts.
Precepts: Mandate.
1. Two words that stand out here. Almost/but.
a. They had almost consumed him. They could only go as far as God would let them.
b. When he wrote this he was looking back at some experience he had gone through.
c. “But I forsook not they commandments”
d. His enemies wanted him to deny his faith, but he did not forget God’s word. Elab
VS 88
88 Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.
1. Quicken: Revive
a. God’s word comes straight from God’s mouth. When we hear God’s word we have to be obedient to God’s word.