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Psalms 119:82

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

KJV

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

ASV

כָּל֣וּ עֵ֭ינַ/י לְ/אִמְרָתֶ֑/ךָ לֵ֝/אמֹ֗ר מָתַ֥י תְּֽנַחֲמֵֽ/נִי

Hebrew

Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, `When doth it comfort me?'

YLT

My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ךָ
k
noun · 37×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
ם
m
verb · 203×
מָתַ֖י
mty
particle · 43×
נִי
ny
verb · 108×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 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:
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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.
  • Lam 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 o
  • Prov 13:12 — Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
  • Ps 69:3 — I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
  • Ps 69:3 — I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
  • Ps 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.
  • Ps 90:13 — Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
  • Ps 119:123 — Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.