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Psalm 119:81

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

79Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes.
80Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAPF
81My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
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Notice

A fainting soul still speaks of hope here, leaving room for the strain of waiting for God’s salvation without pretending that relief has come.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 130:5I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.Both describe the soul waiting for God’s help and name his word as the ground of hope.
Psalm 119:114You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.Both say, “I hope in your word,” with one describing a fainting soul and the other naming God as shelter.
Psalm 13:5But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.Both look to God for salvation, though one speaks from faintness and the other from trust and rejoicing.
Psalm 39:7Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.Both direct hope toward God, with Psalm 119 naming his word and Psalm 39 naming God himself.
2 Corinthians 4:16Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.Both speak of fainting; the psalmist longs for salvation, while Paul describes inward renewal amid outward decay.
Job 6:8“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,Both express intense longing toward God, though Job’s request here leaves the desired thing unnamed.
Revelation 3:15–16“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.The shared thread is limited to desire: the psalmist longs for salvation, while Revelation’s speaker wants hearers to be cold or hot.
Song of Songs 5:8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.Both describe faintness bound up with longing, though the psalm seeks God’s salvation and the song seeks a beloved.
2 Samuel 23:5Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. …Both join salvation with desire directed toward God, with David also naming God’s everlasting covenant.
2 Chronicles 9:4the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers and their clothing, and his ascent by …The connection is slight: both describe an overwhelmed person, one fainting for salvation and the other overcome by what she sees.
Lamentations 3:21This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.Both speak of hope, with the psalm naming God’s word and Lamentations pointing to something recalled to mind.
2 Samuel 23:15David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”Both voice strong longing, though David desires water from Bethlehem and the psalmist desires God’s salvation.
Where this verse fits

Waiting. feeling distant from God. fear for the future.

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Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 119:81 aloud at bedtime once this week

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Encouragement

Weariness need not silence your hope in God’s word. The psalmist speaks from the edge of his strength, and his longing for salvation remains directed toward God.

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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).