Psalm 119:81 {118:81}
Good News Translation
I am worn out, LORD, waiting for you to save me; I place my trust in your word.

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

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

New American Bible
My soul longs for your salvation; I put my hope in your word.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.

fainteth

Psalm 119:20,40 My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times. . . .

Psalm 42:1,2 Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. [2] As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God. . . .

Psalm 73:26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 84:2 my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

Songs 5:8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

Revelation 3:15,16 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot. . . .

but I

Psalm 119:42,74,77,114 So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I have trusted in thy words. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
80Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded. 81My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.82My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?…
Cross References
Psalm 73:26
For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 84:2
my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

Psalm 119:43
And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly.

Psalm 119:166
I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy commandments.

Psalm 130:5
my soul hath hoped in the Lord.

Psalm 119:80
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