Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

I was wearied in my calling, my throat was dried up: mine eyes failed waiting for my God.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

I am weary with my calling [out]; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted [in my] waiting for my God.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I am weary of crying; my throat is dry. My sight faileth me, for waiting so long upon my God.

NET Bible

I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.

New Heart English Bible

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

The Emphasized Bible

I am weary with mine outcry, Parched is my throat, - Mine eyes have become dim, through waiting for my God.

Webster

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

World English Bible

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Youngs Literal Translation

I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

References

Hastings

Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. 3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?

Cross References

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes long for your promise; I ask, "When will you comfort me?"

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.

Psalm 119:123

My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.

Psalm 22:15

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last."

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,

Psalm 13:1-3

How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.

Psalm 25:21

May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

Psalm 39:7

"And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city.

John 19:28

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), "I thirst."

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.

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