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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:123

In 11 translations

BSB
My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
KJV
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
WEB
My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.
ASV
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, And for thy righteous word.
LSV
My eyes have been consumed for Your salvation. And for the saying of Your righteousness.
YLT
Mine eyes have been consumed for Thy salvation. And for the saying of Thy righteousness.
DBY
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the *word of thy righteousness.
DRC118:123
My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.
GNV
Mine eyes haue failed in waiting for thy saluation, and for thy iust promise.
JPS
Mine eyes fail for Thy salvation, and for Thy righteous word.
LXXE118:123
Mine eyes have failed for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
עֵ֭ינַי כָּל֣וּ לִֽישׁוּעָתֶ֑ךָ וּלְאִמְרַ֥ת צִדְקֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br118:123
Οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου ἐξέλιπον εἰς τὸ σωτήριόν σου, καὶ εἰς τὸ λόγιον τῆς δικαιοσύνης σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 130:6My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning— more than watchmen wait for the morning.
  • Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
  • Psalms 119:81–82My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word. My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
  • Lamentations 4:17All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
  • Psalms 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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