Psalms 119:83

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

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WEBBE

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

BSB

Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

KJV

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

ASV

For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.

BBE

For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.

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כִּי־ ki- for H3588 הָיִיתִי ha·yi·ti I have become H1961 כְּנֹאד ke·nod like a skin-bottle H4997 בְּקִיטוֹר be·ki·tor in smoke H7008 חֻקֶּיךָ chu·kei·cha decrees your H2706 לֹא lo' not H3808 שָׁכָחְתִּי sha·kha·che·ti I have forgotten H7911

The early church

But when spiritual desires burn, carnal desires without doubt cool: on this account follows, "Since I have become like a bottle in the frost, I do not forget Your righteousnesses" [Psalm 119:83]. Truly he desires this mortal flesh to be understood by the bottle, the heavenly blessing by the frost, whereby the lusts of the flesh as it were by the binding of the frost become sluggish; and hence it arises that the righteousnesses of God do not slip from the memory, as long as we do not meditate apart from them; since what the Apostle says is brought to pass: "Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof." [Romans 13:14] "And I do not forget Your righteousness:" that is, I forget them not, because I have become such. For the fervour of lust has cooled, that the memory of love might glow.

Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 81–88

The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet faith must not. His affliction was great. He was become like a leathern bottle, which, if hung up in the smoke, is dried and shrivelled up. We must ever be mindful of God's statutes. The days of the believer's mourning shall be ended; they are but for a moment, compared with eternal happiness. His enemies used craft as well as power for his ruin, in contempt of the law of God. The commandments of God are true and faithful guides in the path of peace and safety. We may best expect help from God when, like our Master, we do well and suffer for it. Wicked men may almost consume the believer upon earth, but he would sooner forsake all than forsake the word of the Lord. We should depend upon the grace of God for strength to do every good work. The surest token of God's good-will toward us, is his good work in us.

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