Psalms 69:3
1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
- KJV
- I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- WEB
- I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
- ASV
- I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- DARBY
- I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- BLB
- I have grown weary with my calling out; my throat is dry; my eyes fail, waiting for my God.
- ÅB
- Jeg har ropt meg trett, min strupe brenner; mine øyne er borttæret idet jeg venter på min Gud.
- OTB
- Jeg er utmattet av gråt; min strupe er tørr;
Mine øyne svikter mens jeg venter på min Gud. - B1930
- Jeg har ropt mig trett, min strupe brenner; mine øine er borttæret idet jeg venter på min Gud.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Read in contextPsalms 119:82
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Read in contextPsalms 119:123
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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.
Read in contextPsalms 25:21
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Read in contextLamentations 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.
Read in contextHebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
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