Psalms 69:3
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
In Context
Cross References
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.
Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed to swim. I water my couch with my tears.
Psalms 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.
Psalms 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee.
Psalms 40:3And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in LORD.
Psalms 88:7Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:2-13
Complaints and Petitions. 1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 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. 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins… Read the whole commentary →