Psalms 119:82
80 May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
81 My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
83 Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
84 How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
- KJV
- Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
- WEB
- My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”
- ASV
- Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?
- DARBY
- Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
- BLB
- My eyes fail for your word, saying, “When will You comfort me?”
- ÅB
- Mine øyne vansmekter av lengsel etter ditt ord idet jeg sier: Når vil du trøste meg?
- OTB
- Mine øyne svikter av lengsel etter ditt ord,
Mens jeg sier: "Når vil du trøste meg?" - B1930
- Mine øine vansmekter av lengsel efter ditt ord idet jeg sier: Når vil du trøste mig?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 69:3
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
Read in contextPsalms 119:123
My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
Read in contextProverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Read in contextPsalms 90:13–15
Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
Read in contextPsalms 86:17
Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
Read in contextLamentations 2:11
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:11
I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
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