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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:82

In 11 translations

BSB
My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
KJV
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
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?
LSV
My eyes have been consumed for Your word, || Saying, “When does it comfort me?”
YLT
Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, 'When doth it comfort me?'
DBY
Mine eyes fail for thy *word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
DRC118:82
My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?
GNV
Mine eyes faile for thy promise, saying, when wilt thou comfort me?
JPS
Mine eyes fail for Thy word, saying: 'When wilt Thou comfort me?'
LXXE118:82
Mine eyes failed in waiting for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

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Original-language editions

WLC
כָּל֣וּ עֵ֭ינַי לְאִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ לֵ֝אמֹ֗ר מָתַ֥י תְּֽנַחֲמֵֽנִי׃
LXX-Br118:82
Ἐξέλιπον οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου εἰς τὸ λόγιόν σου, λέγοντες, πότε παρακαλέσεις με;

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 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
  • Psalms 119:123My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
  • Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
  • Psalms 86:17Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
  • Psalms 90:13–15Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants. Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as You have…
  • Lamentations 2:11My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
  • Isaiah 38:11I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
  • Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

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

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