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Revised Standard Version

Psalms 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Desire;   Jesus, the Christ;   Persecution;   Waiting;   Thompson Chain Reference - Delays, Divine;   Divine;   Prayer;   Tests, Spiritual;   The Topic Concordance - Enemies;   Jesus Christ;   Reproach;   Sacrifice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Waiting upon God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Shushan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Medicine;   Psalms;   Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fail;   Wait;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hapax Legomena;   Javan;   Shibboleth;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 18;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am weary from my crying;my throat is parched.My eyes fail, looking for my God.
Hebrew Names Version
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
King James Version
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
English Standard Version
I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
New Century Version
I am tired from calling for help; my throat is sore. My eyes are tired from waiting for God to help me.
New English Translation
I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; my eyes grow tired of looking for my God.
Amplified Bible
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; My eyes fail while I wait [with confident expectation] for my God.
New American Standard Bible
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
World English Bible
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I am wearie of crying: my throte is drie: mine eyes faile, whiles I waite for my God.
Legacy Standard Bible
I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched;My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Berean Standard Bible
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
Contemporary English Version
I am worn out from crying, and my throat is dry. I have waited for you till my eyes are blurred.
Complete Jewish Bible
I am sinking down in the mud, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep water; the flood is sweeping over me.
Darby Translation
I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Easy-to-Read Version
I am getting weak from calling for help. My throat is sore. I have waited and looked for your help until my eyes are hurting.
George Lamsa Translation
I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; mine eyes fail while I wait for God.
Good News Translation
I am worn out from calling for help, and my throat is aching. I have strained my eyes, looking for your help.
Lexham English Bible
I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God.
Literal Translation
I am weary from my crying, my throat is scorched; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am weery of crienge, my throte is drye, my sight fayleth me, for waytinge so longe vpon my God.
American Standard Version
I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Bible in Basic English
I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am sunk in deep mire, where there is no standing;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am weery of crying, my throte is drye: my syght fayleth me through the long attendaunce that I haue geuen vpon my Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.
English Revised Version
I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I traueilide criynge, my cheekis weren maad hoose; myn iyen failiden, the while Y hope in to my God.
Update Bible Version
I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Webster's Bible Translation
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
New King James Version
I am weary with my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
New Living Translation
I am exhausted from crying for help; my throat is parched. My eyes are swollen with weeping, waiting for my God to help me.
New Life Bible
I have cried until I am tired. My mouth is dry. My eyes become weak while I wait for my God.
New Revised Standard
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I am weary with mine outcry, Parched is my throat, - Mine eyes have become dim, through waiting for my God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(68-4) I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.
Young's Literal Translation
I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.
THE MESSAGE
I'm hoarse from calling for help, Bleary-eyed from searching the sky for God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Contextual Overview

1 To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. 3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God. 4 More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore? 5 O God, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee. 6 Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. 7 For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face. 8 I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons. 9 For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me. 10 When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I am: Psalms 6:6, Psalms 13:1-3, Psalms 22:2, Hebrews 5:7

my throat: Psalms 69:21, Psalms 22:15, John 19:28

mine: Psalms 119:82, Psalms 119:123, Deuteronomy 28:32, Job 11:20, Job 16:16, Isaiah 38:14, Lamentations 2:11

I wait: Psalms 25:21, Psalms 39:7

Reciprocal: Job 31:16 - the eyes Psalms 38:10 - the light Psalms 143:7 - my spirit Proverbs 13:12 - Hope Song of Solomon 5:6 - my soul Lamentations 5:17 - our eyes Romans 8:26 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I am weary of my crying,.... In his distress; when, bearing the punishment both of loss and sense, he cried unto God; he prayed earnestly, with great intenseness and fervency of spirit; he offered supplications, with strong cryings and tears, insomuch that he calls it a roaring: and whereas there was a seeming delay of answer to his cries, he cried till he was weary of crying; and yet it is remarkable that his last cry was with a loud voice, which surprised the centurion; see Psalms 22:1;

my throat is dried; with crying, so that he was hoarse; or "burnt" u; with inward heat of a fever, which usually attended persons crucified; see Psalms 22:15;

mine eyes fail while I wait for my God; God the Father was the God of Christ, as he was man; he prepared a body for him, and anointed his human nature with the Holy Spirit; he supported and upheld him: and as such Christ loved him, believed in him, prayed to him, and waited and looked for help and salvation from him; this being delayed, his eyes failed with intense looking about for it, as well as with grief and tears. Ainsworth observes, that failing of the eyes is one of the curses of the law, Leviticus 26:16, and it shows how in every thing Christ was made a curse for his people.

u נחר "adustum", Montanus, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am weary of my crying - The word “crying” here does not mean weeping, or shedding tears, but calling upon God for help. He had grown weary; his strength had been exhausted in the act of calling upon God to assist him. See the notes at Psalms 6:6. This was an instance where one had called so long on God, and prayed so much and so earnestly, that his strength was gone. Compare Matthew 26:41.

My throat is dried - Or, “is parched up.” The Hebrew word denotes to burn; to be enkindled; and then, to be inflamed. Here it means that by the excessive exertion of his voice, his throat had become parched, so that he could not speak.

Mine eyes fail - That is, become dim from exhaustion. I have looked so long in that one direction that the power of vision begins to fail, and I see nothing clearly. See the notes at Psalms 6:7. Compare Job 17:7; Psalms 31:9; Psalms 38:10.

While I wait for my God - That is, by continued “looking” to God. The word “wait” is not used here, nor is it generally in the Bible, as it is now with us, in the sense of looking for “future” interposition, or of doing nothing ourselves in expectation of what “may” occur; but it is used in the sense of looking to God alone; of exercising dependence on him; of seeking his aid. This is indeed connnected with the ordinary idea of abiding his will, but it is also an “active” state of mind - a state expressive of intense interest and desire. See the notes at Psalms 62:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 69:3. I am weary of my crying — A pathetic description of the state of the poor captives for about seventy years.


 
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