Psalms 119:82
Mine eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
In Context
81My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.
83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.
Cross References
Psalms 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms 90:13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Lamentations 2:11Mine 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 infants swoon in the streets of the city.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:82-83
11. CAPH. 81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? Here we have the psalmist, I. Longing for help from heaven: My soul faints; my eyes fail. He longs for the salvation of the Lord and for his word, that is, salvation according to the word. He is not thus eager for the creatures of fancy, but for the objects of faith, salvation from the present calamities under which he was groaning and the doubts and fears which he was… Read the whole commentary →