Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

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?

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 fainteth for thy salvation; But I hope in thy word. 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me? 83 For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.


Cross References

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalm 119:123

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy righteous word.

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: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.

Psalm 86:17

Show me a token for good, That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame, Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me, and comforted me.

Psalm 90:13-15

Return, O Jehovah; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; But when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Isaiah 38:11

I said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Lamentations 2:11

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

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