Parallel Verses
Amplified
My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your promise,
Saying, “When will You comfort me?”
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Holman Bible
looking for what You have promised;
I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
International Standard Version
My eyes grow weary with respect to what you have promised I keep asking, "When will you comfort me?"
A Conservative Version
My eyes fail for thy word, while I say, When will thou comfort me?
American Standard Version
Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?
Bible in Basic English
My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
Darby Translation
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Julia Smith Translation
Mine eyes failed for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
King James 2000
My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?
Lexham Expanded Bible
My eyes long for your word, saying, "When will you comfort me?"
Modern King James verseion
My eyes fail for Your Word, saying, When will You comfort me?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mine eyes long sore for thy word, saying, "O when wilt thou comfort me?"
NET Bible
My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. I say, "When will you comfort me?"
New Heart English Bible
My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"
The Emphasized Bible
Mine eyes have failed for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Webster
My eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
World English Bible
My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"
Youngs Literal Translation
Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, 'When doth it comfort me?'
Themes
Consolation under Affliction » Pray for
divine Delays » Try men's courage and patience
Prayer » For miscellaneous topics relating to the devotional life, » Answer delayed
The scriptures » Designed for » Comforting
The scriptures » Saints » Long after
The word of God » Despised by the foolish » Loved by the saints
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:82
Verse Info
Context Readings
Kaph
81
Kaph.
My soul languishes and grows weak for Your salvation;
I wait for Your word.
My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your promise,
Saying, “When will You comfort me?”
For I have become like a wineskin [blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs],
Yet I do not forget Your statutes.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait [with confident expectation] for my God.
Psalm 119:123
My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your salvation,
And for [the fulfillment of] Your righteous word.
Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.
Psalm 86:17
Show me a sign of [Your] goodwill,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, helped and comforted me.
Psalm 90:13-15
Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be?
Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.
Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
But when desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
Isaiah 38:11
I said, “I will not see the Lord
The Lord in the land of the living;
I will no longer see man among the inhabitants of the world.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],
My spirit is deeply disturbed;
My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.