Psalms 119:82

80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

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?

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 of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

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  • Psalms 119:123

    Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

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  • Proverbs 13:12

    Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

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  • Psalms 90:13–15

    Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

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  • Psalms 86:17

    Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:32

    Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

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  • Lamentations 2:11

    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

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  • Isaiah 38:11

    I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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