Psalms 69 · Verse 3

Psalms 69:3

I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms 69:3, King James Version

Psalms 69:3 in other translations

BSBI am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
WEBI am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.
ASVI am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
YLTI have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.
DARBYI am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
BBEI am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
WebsterI am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

What does Psalms 69:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. (Compare Psa 6:6). mine eyes fail--in watching (Psa 119:82).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 I am weary of my crying - A pathetic description of the state of the poor captives for about seventy years.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 69:1-12

We should frequently consider the person of the Sufferer here spoken of, and ask why, as well as what he suffered, that, meditating thereon, we may be more humbled for sin, and more convinced of our danger, so that we may feel more gratitude and love, constraining us to live to His glory who died for our salvation. Hence we learn, when in affliction, to commit the keeping of our souls to God, that we may not be…

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Psalms 69:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יָגַ֣עְתִּיya.Ga'.tiI have become wearyH3021
בְקָרְאִי֮ve.ka.re.'Iby calling out myH7121
נִחַ֪רni.Charit has become parchedH2787
גְּר֫וֹנִ֥יge.Ro.Nithroat myH1627
כָּל֥וּka.Luthey have failedH3615
עֵינַ֑י'ei.Naieyes myH5869
מְ֝יַחֵ֗לme.ya.ChelwaitingH3176
לֵאלֹהָֽי\׃le.lo.Haifor God myH430

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 69:3

  • Psalms 6:6

    I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

  • Psalms 119:82

    Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

  • Psalms 119:123

    Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

  • Isaiah 38:14

    Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for 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.

  • Psalms 25:21

    Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

  • 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.

  • Hebrews 5:7

    Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

  • Job 11:20

    But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

  • Psalms 22:2

    O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

  • Psalms 39:7

    And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

  • Psalms 13:1-3

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I am.
6:6; 13:1-3; 22:2; Heb 5:7
my throat.
21; 22:15; Joh 19:28
mine.
119:82,123; De 28:32; Job 11:20; 16:16; Isa 38:14; La 2:11
I wait.
25:21; 39:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 69:2

    I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

  • Psalms 69:3

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

  • Psalms 69:4

    They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

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Psalms 69:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Cansado estoy de llamar; mi garganta se ha enronquecido; han desfallecido mis ojos esperando á mi Dios.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Je suis enfoncé dans une boue profonde, et il n’y a pas où prendre pied; je suis entré dans la profondeur des eaux, et le courant me submerge.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich bin müde vom Rufen, entzündet ist meine Kehle; meine Augen schwinden hin, harrend auf meinen Gott.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Confundantur, et revereantur, qui quærunt animam meam.