Psalms 119:81

Amplified Bible

My soul languishes and grows weak for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I long for your salvation;I put my hope in your word.

Hebrew Names Version
My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

King James Version
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

English Standard Version

Kaph

My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word.

New Century Version
I am weak from waiting for you to save me, but I hope in your word.

New English Translation

כ (Kaf)

I desperately long for your deliverance. I find hope in your word.

New American Standard Bible
My soul languishes for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

World English Bible
My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Caph. My soule fainteth for thy saluation: yet I waite for thy worde.

Legacy Standard Bible
My soul fails with longing for Your salvation;I wait for Your word.

Berean Standard Bible
My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

Contemporary English Version
I long for you to rescue me! Your word is my only hope.

Complete Jewish Bible

כ (Kaf)

I am dying to know your salvation; my hope is in your word.

Darby Translation
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.

Easy-to-Read Version
I feel weaker and weaker as I wait for you to save me. But I put my trust in your word.

George Lamsa Translation
CAPH. My soul hath longed for thy salvation, and I hope in thy word.

Good News Translation
I am worn out, Lord , waiting for you to save me; I place my trust in your word.

Lexham English Bible
My soul languishes for your salvation; I hope in your word.

Literal Translation
KAPH: My soul is being consumed for Your salvation; I hope in Your Word.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My soule longeth for thy sauynge health, for my trust is in thy worde.

American Standard Version

כ Kaph.

My soul fainteth for thy salvation; But I hope in thy word.

Bible in Basic English
My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
CAPH. My soul pineth for Thy salvation; in Thy word do I hope.

King James Version (1611)
[CAPH.] My soule fainteth for thy saluation: but I hope in thy word.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My soule hath faynted after thy saluation: I geue earnest attedaunce vnto thy worde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My soul faints for thy salvation: I have hoped in thy words.

English Revised Version
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi soule failide in to thin helthe; and Y hopide more on thi word.

Update Bible Version
KAF My soul faints for your salvation; [But] I hope in your word.

Webster's Bible Translation
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.

New King James Version
My soul faints for Your salvation, But I hope in Your word.

New Living Translation

Kaph

I am worn out waiting for your rescue, but I have put my hope in your word.

New Life Bible
My soul becomes weak with desire for Your saving power, but I have put my hope in Your Word.

New Revised Standard
My soul languishes for your salvation; I hope in your word.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
[KAPH] My soul, hath languished for thy salvation, For thy word, have I hoped.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-81) My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.

Revised Standard Version
My soul languishes for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.

Young's Literal Translation
[Kaph.] Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.

THE MESSAGE
I'm homesick—longing for your salvation; I'm waiting for your word of hope. My eyes grow heavy watching for some sign of your promise; how long must I wait for your comfort? There's smoke in my eyes—they burn and water, but I keep a steady gaze on the instructions you post. How long do I have to put up with all this? How long till you haul my tormentors into court? The arrogant godless try to throw me off track, ignorant as they are of God and his ways. Everything you command is a sure thing, but they harass me with lies. Help! They've pushed and pushed—they never let up— but I haven't relaxed my grip on your counsel. In your great love revive me so I can alertly obey your every word.

New American Standard Bible (1995)

Kaph.

My soul languishes for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

Contextual Overview

⁸¹My soul languishes and grows weak for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.⁸²My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your promise, Saying, "When will You comfort me?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fainteth: Psalms 119:20, Psalms 119:40, Psalms 42:1, Psalms 42:2, Psalms 73:26, Psalms 84:2, Song of Solomon 5:8, Revelation 3:15, Revelation 3:16

but I: Psalms 119:42, Psalms 119:74, Psalms 119:77, Psalms 119:114

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 23:5 - all my salvation 2 Samuel 23:15 - longed 2 Chronicles 9:4 - there was Job 6:8 - the thing that I long for Job 19:27 - another Psalms 13:5 - my heart Psalms 38:10 - heart Psalms 39:7 - hope Psalms 40:16 - love Psalms 51:8 - Make Psalms 63:1 - soul Psalms 71:5 - For thou Psalms 119:49 - upon which Psalms 119:123 - General Psalms 119:147 - hoped Psalms 119:166 - Lord Psalms 119:174 - longed Psalms 130:5 - and in his Psalms 143:4 - my heart Proverbs 13:12 - Hope Lamentations 3:21 - therefore Jonah 2:7 - my soul Romans 7:24 - wretched Romans 8:26 - with Romans 15:4 - that 2 Corinthians 4:16 - we

Gill's Notes on the Bible

k, CAPH.--The Eleventh Part.

Ver. 81. CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation, Either for temporal salvation and deliverance from enemies; which, being promised, was expected by him from the Lord; but not coming so soon as looked for, his spirits began to sink and faint: or for spiritual and eternal salvation, for a view of interest in it, for the joys and comforts of it, and for the full possession of is in heaven; and, particularly, for the promised Messiah, the author of it, often called the Salvation of God, because prepared and appointed by him to be the author of it: of him there was a promise, which gave the Old Testament saints reason to expect him, and for him they waited; his coming they earnestly wished for, but being long deferred, were sometimes out of heart, and ready to faint, which was here David's case;

[but] I hope in thy word; the word of promise concerning deliverance and salvation, especially by the Messiah, which supported him, and kept him from fainting; that being firm and sure, for ever settled in heaven, and has the oath of God annexed to it, for the confirmation of it; and God is faithful that has promised, and is also able to perform; so that his word lays a solid foundation for faith and hope.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My soul fainteth for thy salvation - The new division of the psalm, which begins here, is indicated by the Hebrew letter Kaph (כ k), equivalent to “k” or “c” (hard). The word here rendered “fainteth” is the same that in Psalms 73:26 is translated “faileth”: “My flesh and my heart faileth.” The idea is, that his strength gave way; he had such an intense desire for salvation that he became weak and powerless. Any strong emotion may thus prostrate us; and the love of God - the desire of his favor - the longing for heaven - may be so intense as to produce this result.

I hope in thy word - I trust in thy promises, and am sustained. My powers, which would otherwise wholly fail, are upheld by thy word, and on that I rely. See Psalms 119:74.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

LETTER כ CAPH. - Eleventh Division

Verse Psalms 119:81. My soul fainteth for thy salvation — I have longed so incessantly after thy salvation - the complete purification and restoration of my soul, that my very spirits are exhausted.

"My heartstrings groan with deep complaint;

My soul lies panting, Lord, for thee;

And every limb and every joint

Stretches for perfect purity."