KJV King James Version
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
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Psalm 119:82
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
WEB World English Bible
My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”
ASV American Standard Version
Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, ‘When doth it comfort me?’
Surrounding context — Psalm 119
79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
81 CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.
82 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?
85 The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy law.
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Psalm 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.Psalm 119:123Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life.Psalm 86:17Shew 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.Psalm 90:13-15Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.Isaiah 38:11I 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.Lamentations 2:11Mine 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.Deuteronomy 28:32Thy 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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