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Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.

121I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
122Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.
123My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.
124Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.
125I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
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Notice

Failing eyes convey the strain of waiting for God's rescue while still looking to his righteous word amid the threat of oppression.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.Both prayers describe eyes failing from looking toward God, making exhaustion part of the plea for help.
Psalm 119:82Both describe eyes failing while waiting for God's word; verse 82 adds an explicit question about when comfort will come.
Hebrews 5:13For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.The shared language concerns righteousness and the word; Hebrews addresses immaturity, while the psalm expresses longing for God's salvation.
Psalm 40:16Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”Both turn toward God's salvation; one speaks from exhausted waiting, while the other asks that those seeking God rejoice.
Psalm 130:6My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.Both express sustained longing for the Lord through images of watching and waiting.
Lamentations 4:17Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.Both describe eyes failing while looking for rescue; Lamentations names a nation that could not save, while the psalm looks to God.
Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your …Both describe eyes failing with longing; Deuteronomy names the loss of children, while the psalm seeks God's salvation.
Job 31:16“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,Both use failing eyes to express unmet longing; Job considers whether he has caused a widow such distress.
Where this verse fits

Waiting. fear for the future.

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Tell God where waiting for his help has worn you down

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Encouragement

You do not have to describe waiting as easy. The psalmist speaks of failing eyes while still addressing God as the source of salvation and righteous words.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).