Parallel Verses
King James Version
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
New American Standard Bible
My
Holman Bible
my throat is parched.
My eyes fail, looking for my God.
International Standard Version
I am exhausted from calling for help. My throat is parched. My eyes are strained from looking for God.
A Conservative Version
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
American Standard Version
I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Amplified
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait [with confident expectation] for my God.
Bible in Basic English
I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
Darby Translation
I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Julia Smith Translation
I was wearied in my calling, my throat was dried up: mine eyes failed waiting for my God.
King James 2000
I am weary from my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I am weary with my calling [out]; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted [in my] waiting for my God.
Modern King James verseion
I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I am weary of crying; my throat is dry. My sight faileth me, for waiting so long upon my God.
NET Bible
I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.
New Heart English Bible
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
The Emphasized Bible
I am weary with mine outcry, Parched is my throat, - Mine eyes have become dim, through waiting for my God.
Webster
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
World English Bible
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
Youngs Literal Translation
I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.
Themes
divine Delays » Try men's courage and patience
Prayer » For miscellaneous topics relating to the devotional life, » Answer delayed
Reproach » The reproaches of man falling on jesus Christ
Topics
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 69:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Rescue
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 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.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalm 119:82
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Isaiah 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.
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.
Psalm 119:123
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Job 16:16
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Psalm 13:1-3
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 22:2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalm 25:21
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Psalm 39:7
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Psalm 69:21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
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.
John 19:28
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
Hebrews 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;