Psalms 119:123

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
eyes	עֵ֭ינַי 'Ei.nai	H5869	an eye (literally or figuratively) · noun, common feminine dual construct + pronominal suffix
fail	כָּל֣וּ ka.Lu	H3615	to end · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
salvation	לִֽישׁוּעָתֶ֑ךָ li.shu.'a.Te.kha	H3444	something saved · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
word	וּלְאִמְרַ֥ת u.le.'im.Rat	H565	something said · conjunction + preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
righteousness	צִדְקֶֽךָ tzid.Ke.cha	H6664	the right (natural · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Psalms 130:6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Psalms 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms 119:81-82 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Psalms 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Lamentations 4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:123

David, being oppressed, is here waiting and wishing for the salvation of the Lord, which would make him easy. 1. He cannot but think that it comes slowly: My eyes fail for thy salvation. His eyes were towards it and had been long so. He looked for help from heaven (and we deceive ourselves if we look for it any other way), but it did not come so soon as he expected, so that his eyes began to fail, and he was sometimes ready to despair, and to think that, because the salvation did not come when he looked for it, it would never come. It is often the infirmity even of good men to be weary of waiting God's time when their time has elapsed. 2. Yet he cannot hope that it comes surely; for he expec…

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John Gill on Psalms 119:123

Mine eyes fail for that salvation,.... For temporal salvation or deliverance from oppressors; and for spiritual salvation, for views of an interest in it, the joys and comforts of it; and for the Messiah, the author of it; whom he was looking wistfully for, but, not coming so soon as expected, his eyes were tired and weary, and ready to fail, and his heart to faint; See Gill on Psalm 119:81; and for the word of thy righteousness; for the word of promise, which the righteousness or faithfulness of God was engaged to perform; or for the law of God, the rule of righteousness, and which shows what righteousness God requires; and for the bringing in of that righteousness of the Messiah, which co…

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John Calvin on Psalms 119:121-128

Psalm 119:121-128 121. I have done judgment and righteousness: give me not up to my oppressors. 122. Become surety for thy servant for good, that the proud may not oppress me. 123. My eyes have failed for thy salvation, and for thy righteous word. [2] 124. Deal with thy servant according to thy goodness, and teach me thy statutes. 125. I am thy servant, give me understanding, that I may learn thy testimonies. 126. It is time for thee, O Jehovah! to be doing for they have destroyed thy law. 127. And therefore I have loved thy statutes above gold, [3] yea even above the most fine gold [4] 128. Therefore I have esteemed all thy commandments to be altogether right, and have hated every way of l…

The Church Fathers

...To prefigure His Cross, Moses by the merciful command of God raised aloft on a pole the image of a serpent in the desert, that the likeness of sinful flesh which must be crucified in Christ might be prefigured? By gazing upon this healing Cross, we cast out all the poison of the scandals of the proud: the Cross, which the Psalmist intently looking upon, saith, "My eyes have failed for Thy salvation, and for the words of Thy righteousness" (ver. 123). For God made Christ Himself "to be sin for us, on account of the likeness of sinful flesh, that we may be made the righteousness of God in Him." For His utterance of the righteousness of God he therefore saith that his eyes have failed, from gazing ardently and eagerly, while, remembering human infirmity, he longeth for divine grace in Christ.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 119

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Dictionary and topics

Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Righteousness Of God, The · Exhibited in: His word — Exhibited in: His word
Salvation · Saints: Earnestly look for — Saints: Earnestly look for

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 119:123

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:123

John Gill on Psalms 119:123

John Calvin on Psalms 119:121-128

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 119:123

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:123

John Gill on Psalms 119:123

John Calvin on Psalms 119:121-128

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:121-128

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 119:121-128