Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait [with confident expectation] for my God.
Psalm 6:6
I am weary with my groaning;
Every night I soak my bed with tears,
I drench my couch with my weeping.
Psalm 119:82
My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your promise,
Saying, “When will You comfort me?”
Isaiah 38:14
“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirp;
I coo like a dove.
My eyes look wistfully upward;
O Lord, I am oppressed, take my side and be my security.
Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.
Psalm 119:123
My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your salvation,
And for [the fulfillment of] Your righteous word.
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery;
And my [dry] tongue clings to my jaws;
And You have laid me in the dust of death.
Job 11:20
“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And they will not escape [the justice of God];
And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”
Job 16:16
“My face is red and swollen with weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],
Psalm 13:1-3
How long will You hide Your face from me?
Psalm 22:2
O my God, I call out by day, but You do not answer;
And by night, but I find no rest nor quiet.
Psalm 25:21
Let integrity and uprightness protect me,
For I wait [expectantly] for You.
Psalm 39:7
“And now, Lord, for what do I expectantly wait?
My hope [my confident expectation] is in You.
Psalm 69:21
They (self-righteous hypocrites) also gave me gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food,
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],
My spirit is deeply disturbed;
My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.
John 19:28
After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said in fulfillment of the Scripture,
Hebrews 5:7
In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].
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My throat
I wait
General references
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I am
I am weary with my groaning;
Every night I soak my bed with tears,
I drench my couch with my weeping.
How long will You hide Your face from me?
O my God, I call out by day, but You do not answer;
And by night, but I find no rest nor quiet.
My throat
They (self-righteous hypocrites) also gave me gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food,
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery;
And my [dry] tongue clings to my jaws;
And You have laid me in the dust of death.
Mine
My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your promise,
Saying, “When will You comfort me?”
“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And they will not escape [the justice of God];
And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”
“My face is red and swollen with weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],
“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirp;
I coo like a dove.
My eyes look wistfully upward;
O Lord, I am oppressed, take my side and be my security.
My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],
My spirit is deeply disturbed;
My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.
I wait
Let integrity and uprightness protect me,
For I wait [expectantly] for You.
“And now, Lord, for what do I expectantly wait?
My hope [my confident expectation] is in You.
General references
My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your salvation,
And for [the fulfillment of] Your righteous word.