Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

My eyes fail with longing for Your word,
While I say, “When will You comfort me?”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

My eyes grow weary
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?

Amplified


My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your promise,
Saying, “When will You 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?'

Verse Info

Context Readings

Kaph

81 Kaph.
My soul languishes for Your salvation;
I wait for Your word.
82 My eyes fail with longing for Your word,
While I say, “When will You comfort me?”
83 Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,
I do not forget Your statutes.


Cross References

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail with longing for Your salvation
And for Your righteous word.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

Psalm 86:17

Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

Psalm 90:13-15

Do return, O Lord; how long will it be?
And be sorry for Your servants.

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
But desire fulfilled 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 look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail because of tears,
My spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is poured out on the earth
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.

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