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Psalms 119:82
My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God, reporting physical and spiritual depletion while waiting for divine response immediately after describing his soul fainting and comparing himself to a smoke-dried wineskin.
The words — The Hebrew כָּל֣וּ (ka.Lu) means "they are exhausted," and עֵ֭ינַ/י ('Ei.na/i) means "my eyes," stating the literal physical strain of prolonged anticipation.
The thread — The text's description of failing eyes appears in Psalms 69:3 and Psalms 119:123, while Proverbs 13:12 records the psychological consequence of delayed hope.
Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to voice concrete petitions for timely intervention rather than masking spiritual fatigue with abstract piety.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Cross-references
- Psalms 69:3 I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
- Psalms 119:123 My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
- Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
- Psalms 86:17 Show 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 Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
- Deuteronomy 28:32 Your 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.
- Isaiah 38:11 I 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.
- Lamentations 2:11 My 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.