Psalms 119:82
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Psalms 119:82 in other translations
| BSB | My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?” |
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| WEB | My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?” |
| ASV | Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me? |
| YLT | Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, ‘When doth it comfort me?' |
| DARBY | Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? |
| BBE | My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort? |
| Webster | My eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? |
What does Psalms 119:82 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:81-83
81-83. In sorrow the pious heart yearns for the comforts of God's promises (Psa 73:26; 84:2).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 119:81-88
The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet faith must not. His affliction was great. He was become like a leathern bottle, which, if hung up in the smoke, is dried and shrivelled up. We must ever be mindful of God's statutes. The days of the believer's mourning shall be…
Psalms 119:82 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 119:82
- Psalms 69:3
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Psalms 119:123
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
- Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
- Psalms 90:13-15
Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
- Psalms 86:17
Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
- 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 long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
- Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
- Isaiah 38:11
I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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Context
- Psalms 119:81
כ CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
- Psalms 119:82
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
- Psalms 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Psalms 119:82 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Desfallecieron mis ojos por tu palabra, diciendo: ¿Cuándo me consolarás? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mes yeux languissent après ta parole; et j’ai dit: Quand me consoleras-tu? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Meine Augen schmachten nach deiner Zusage, indem ich spreche: Wann wirst du mich trösten? |