Psalm 119:82 “My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort…”

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Mine 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?”

American Standard Version

Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

Geneva Bible 1599

Mine eyes faile for thy promise, saying, when wilt thou comfort me?

Darby Translation

Mine eyes fail for thy *word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

Young's Literal Translation

Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, 'When doth it comfort me?'

Bible in Basic English

My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?

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Cross references

“eyes”

Psalm 69:3 Psalm 119:123 Proverbs 13:12 Deuteronomy 28:32 Isaiah 38:11

Psalm 69:3 · BSB

I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Psalm 119:123 · BSB

My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.

Proverbs 13:12 · BSB

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Deuteronomy 28:32 · BSB

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

Isaiah 38:11 · BSB

I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

“When wilt”

Psalm 86:17 Psalm 90:13–15

Psalm 86:17 · BSB

Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

Psalm 90:13–15 · BSB

Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

Also

Lamentations 2:11

Lamentations 2:11 · BSB

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

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