Psalm 119:82
◄  Psalm 119:82  ►
New International Version (©2011)
My eyes fail, looking for your promise; I say, "When will you comfort me?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
My eyes are straining to see your promises come true. When will you comfort me?

English Standard Version (©2001)
My eyes long for your promise; I ask, “When will you comfort me?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
My eyes fail with longing for Your word, While I say, "When will You comfort me?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
My eyes grow weary looking for what You have promised; I ask, "When will You comfort me?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
My eyes grow weary with respect to what you have promised— I keep asking, "When will you comfort me?"

NET Bible (©2006)
My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
My eyes look for your word. When will you comfort me?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
My eyes have become strained from looking for your promise. I ask, "When will you comfort me?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?

American King James Version
My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?

Darby Bible Translation
Mine eyes fail for thy ùword, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

English Revised Version
Mine eyes fail for thy word, while I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

Webster's Bible Translation
My eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

World English Bible
My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

Young's Literal Translation
Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, 'When doth it comfort me?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 ended; they are but for a moment, compared with eternal happiness. His enemies used craft as well as power for his ruin, in contempt of the law of God. The commandments of God are true and faithful guides in the path of peace and safety. We may best expect help from God when, like our Master, we do well and suffer for it. Wicked men may almost consume the believer upon earth, but he would sooner forsake all than forsake the word of the Lord. We should depend upon the grace of God for strength to do every good work. The surest token of God's good-will toward us, is his good work in us.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 82. - Mine eyes fail for thy Word. Yet even here his "eyes fail" - he has looked so long for the aid promised, and it has not come. Saying, When wilt thou comfort me? "Lord, how long?" is the constant cry of God's servants under affliction or persecution. When will relief come and the tyranny be overpast?

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Mine eyes fail for thy word,.... Either with looking for the Messiah, the essential Word, that was to be, and afterwards was made flesh, and dwelt among men; or for the fulfilment of the word of promise, on which he was made to hope; but that being deferred; and he believing in hope against hope, and looking out continually till it was accomplished, his eyes grew weary, and failed him, and he was just ready to give up all expectation of it; see Psalm 77:8;

saying, when wilt thou comfort me? The people of God are sometimes very disconsolate, and need comforting, through the prevalence of sin, the power of Satan's temptations, the hidings of God's face, and a variety of afflictions; when they apply to God for comfort, who only can comfort them, and who has his set times to do it; but they are apt to think it long, and inquire, as David here, when it will be.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

82. Mine eyes fail for thy word—that is, with yearning desire for Thy word. When the eyes fail, yet faith must not.

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…81My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word. 82My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me? 83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes. …

Psalm 69:3 I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
Psalm 119:123 My eyes fail, looking for your salvation, looking for your righteous promise.
Isaiah 38:14 I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!"
Lamentations 2:11 My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.