My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
Parallel translations
- KJV My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
- BSB My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
- NKJV My soul faints for Your salvation, But I hope in Your word.
- NASB ¶My soul languishes for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
- NLT I am worn out waiting for your rescue, but I have put my hope in your word.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 84:2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Ps 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
- Ps 119:114You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.
- Ps 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- Song 5:8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
- Ps 119:77Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
- Rev 3:15–16“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
- Ps 119:42So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.
- Ps 119:74Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.
- Ps 42:1–2For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
- Ps 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
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