Psalm 69:3

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes fail with waiting [hopefully] for my God.

Cross References

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked shall look [for relief] in vain, and they shall not escape [the justice of God]; and their hope shall be to give up the ghost.

Job 16:16

My face is red and swollen with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],

Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail, watching for Your salvation and for the fulfillment of Your righteous promise.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail, watching for [the fulfillment of] Your promise. I say, When will You comfort me?

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery; [with thirst] my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and You have brought me into the dust of death. [John 19:28.]

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You answer not; and by night I am not silent or find no rest.

Psalm 25:21

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for and expect You.

Psalm 39:7

And now, Lord, what do I wait for and expect? My hope and expectation are in You.

Psalm 40:3

And He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many shall see and fear (revere and worship) and put their trust and confident reliance in the Lord. [Ps. 5:11.]

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning; all night I soak my pillow with tears, I drench my couch with my weeping.

Psalm 69:21

They gave me also gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar (a soured wine) to drink. [Matt. 27:34, 48.]

Psalm 88:7

Your wrath lies hard upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Ps. 42:7.]

Isaiah 38:14

Like a twittering swallow or a crane, so do I chirp and chatter; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary and dim with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; take my side and be my security [as of a debtor being sent to prison].

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping, my emotions are deeply disturbed, my heart is poured out upon the ground [in grief] because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and nurslings faint in the streets of the city.

John 19:28

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished (ended), said in fulfillment of the Scripture, I thirst. [Ps. 69:21.]

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all the day; and there shall be no power in your hands to prevent it. [Fulfilled in II Chron. 29:9.]

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of His flesh [Jesus] offered up definite, special petitions [for that which He not only wanted but needed] and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was [always] able to save Him [out] from death, and He was heard because of His reverence toward God [His godly fear, His piety, in that He shrank from the horrors of separation from the bright presence of the Father].