King James Version
Psalms 119:82 in the King James Version says “Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 119 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?”
Psalms 119:82 · KJV
Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“fail”
H3615to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
“Mine eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
properly, extent (of time); but used only adverbially (especially with other particle prefixes), when (either relative or interrogative)
“When wilt thou comfort”
H5162properly, to sigh, i.e., breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e., (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavo
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