Psalms 69:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 6:6 : 6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
  • Isa 38:14 : 14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
  • Ps 119:82 : 82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
  • Ps 119:123 : 123 My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
  • Deut 28:32 : 32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.
  • Ps 22:15 : 15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
  • Ps 25:21 : 21 For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.
  • Ps 39:7 : 7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.
  • Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.
  • Job 16:16 : 16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
  • Ps 13:1-3 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me? 2 How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me? 3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
  • John 19:28 : 28 After this, being conscious that all things had now been done so that the Writings might come true, Jesus said, Give me water.
  • Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 69:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

    2 My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

  • Ps 42:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah.> Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

    2 My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

    3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

  • Ps 119:82
    77%

    82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?

  • Ps 6:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

    7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Job 3:24
    76%

    24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

  • Ps 143:6
    76%

    6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

  • Ps 38:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

    9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

    10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • Ps 69:20
    76%

    20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

  • Ps 63:1
    76%

    1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • Ps 42:9
    75%

    9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • Ps 22:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

    2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

  • Job 16:20
    74%

    20 My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

  • Ps 77:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

    2 In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

  • Ps 88:9
    74%

    9 My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

  • Ps 69:4
    74%

    4 Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.

  • Job 16:16
    74%

    16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

  • Ps 61:1
    74%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. On a corded instrument. Of David.> Let my cry come to you, O God; let your ears be open to my prayer.

  • Ps 39:7
    73%

    7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

  • Ps 109:22
    73%

    22 For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

  • Ps 119:123
    73%

    123 My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

  • Ps 40:1
    73%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm.> When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.

  • Ps 141:1
    73%

    1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.

  • Ps 102:5
    73%

    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • Ps 39:12
    73%

    12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

  • Ps 142:6
    73%

    6 Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

  • Ps 143:4
    73%

    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Ps 130:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word.

    6 My soul is watching for the Lord more than those who are watching for the morning; yes, more than the watchers for the morning.

  • Isa 38:14
    73%

    14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

  • Ps 69:29
    73%

    29 But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord.

  • Lam 1:16
    73%

    16 For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

  • Ps 38:17
    73%

    17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

  • Ps 69:13
    73%

    13 But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.

  • Lam 3:49
    73%

    49 My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,

  • Ps 40:12
    72%

    12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

  • Job 7:19
    72%

    19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

  • Ps 142:1
    72%

    1 <Maschil. Of David. A prayer when he was in the hole of the rock.> The sound of my cry went up to the Lord; with my voice I made my prayer for grace to the Lord.

  • Lam 1:22
    72%

    22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.