psalms 77:4 thou holdest mine eyes waking i am so troubled that i cannot speak

Psalms 77:4

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— You have held my eyelids [open]; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Thou holdest my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Thou hast held, watching, mine eyes, I was driven to and fro, and could not speak;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Thou keepest mine eyes waking: I was astonied and could not speake.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speake.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— My eyes are dazed; I am dumb so that I cannot speak.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— All mine enemies set a watch [against me]: I was troubled, and spoke not.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Thou holdest 270

{0270} Prime
אָחַז
'achaz
{aw-khaz'}

A primitive root; to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession).

z8804

<8804> Grammar

Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562

mine eyes 5869

{5869} Prime
עַיִן
`ayin
{ah'-yin}

Probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape).

waking: 8109

{8109} Prime
שְׁמֻרָה
sh@murah
{shem-oo-raw'}

Feminine of passive participle of H8104; something guarded, that is, an eye lid.

I am so troubled 6470

{6470} Prime
פָּעַם
pa`am
{paw-am'}

A primitive root; to tap, that is, beat regularly; hence (generally) to impel or agitate.

z8738

<8738> Grammar

Stem - Niphal (See H8833)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 1429

that I cannot x3808

(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}

lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.

speak. 1696

{1696} Prime
דִּבֵּר
dabar
{daw-bar'}

A primitive root; perhaps properly to arrange; but used figuratively (of words) to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue.

z8762

<8762> Grammar

Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 2447

See commentary on Psalms 77:3-9.

Psalms 77:4

_ _ holdest ... waking — or, “fast,” that I cannot sleep. Thus he is led to express his anxious feelings in several earnest questions indicative of impatient sorrow.

See commentary on Psalms 77:1-10.

Psalms 77:4

Waking — By continual grief.

Psalms 77:4

Thou holdest mine eyes ^(c) waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

^(c) Meaning that his sorrows were as watchmen that kept his eyes from sleeping.

holdest:
Psalms 6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Esther 6:1 On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
Job 7:13-15 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; ... So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.

I am:
Job 2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very great.
Job 6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

Es 6:1. Jb 2:13; 6:3; 7:13. Ps 6:6.