Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

My eyes grow weary with respect to what you have promised I keep asking, "When will you comfort me?"

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?”

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 I long for your deliverance; I have looked to your word, placing my hope in it. 82 My eyes grow weary with respect to what you have promised I keep asking, "When will you comfort me?" 83 Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.


Cross References

Psalm 69:3

I am exhausted from calling for help. My throat is parched. My eyes are strained from looking for God.

Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail as I look for your salvation and for your righteous promise.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch. You won't be able to approach them at all, and you'll be powerless to help.

Psalm 86:17

Show me a sign of your goodness, so that those who hate me will see it and be ashamed. For you, LORD, will help and comfort me. A psalm by the descendants of Korah. A song.

Psalm 90:13-15

Please return, LORD! When will it be? Comfort your servants.

Proverbs 13:12

Delayed hope makes the heart ill, but fulfilled longing is a tree of life.

Isaiah 38:11

I said, "I won't see the LORD in the land of the living; and I'll no longer observe human beings among the denizens of the grave.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out from crying, my insides are churning, My emotions pour out in grief because my people are destroyed Children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

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