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description: "\"My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?\" — Read Psalms 119:81-82 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon."
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## Psalms 119:81-82 in Context (Verses 78–85 KJV)
 
 [78 ](/kjv/psalms/119/78) Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: *but* I will meditate in thy precepts.
 
 [79 ](/kjv/psalms/119/79) Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
 
 [80 ](/kjv/psalms/119/80) Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
 
 [81 ](/kjv/psalms/119/81) My soul fainteth for thy salvation: *but* I hope in thy word.
 
 [82 ](/kjv/psalms/119/82) Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
 
 [83 ](/kjv/psalms/119/83) For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; *yet* do I not forget thy statutes.
 
 [84 ](/kjv/psalms/119/84) How many *are* the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
 
 [85 ](/kjv/psalms/119/85) The proud have digged pits for me, which *are* not after thy law.
 
[Psalms 118](/kjv/psalms/118) [Psalms 120](/kjv/psalms/120)

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