Psalm 38:10 {37:11}
Good News Translation
My heart is pounding, my strength is gone, and my eyes have lost their brightness.

New Revised Standard Version
My heart throbs, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.

Contemporary English Version
My heart is beating fast. I feel weak all over, and my eyes are red.

New American Bible
My heart shudders, my strength forsakes me; the very light of my eyes has failed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.

heart

Psalm 42:1 Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. [2] As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God.

Psalm 119:81-83 My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped. . . .

Psalm 143:4-7 And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled. . . .

Isaiah 21:4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

the light

Psalm 6:7 My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.

Psalm 69:3 I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Psalm 88:9 My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

Psalm 119:123 My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.

1 Samuel 14:27-29 But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people: and he put forth the end of the rod, which he had in his hand, and dipt it in a honeycomb: and he carried his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened. . . .

Lamentations 2:11 Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 5:16,17 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned. . . .

gone from [heb.

Context
Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
9Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden from thee. 10My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.11My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:…
Cross References
Psalm 6:7
My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.

Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

Psalm 31:10
For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.

Psalm 69:3
I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Psalm 73:26
For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 88:9
My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee.

Psalm 38:9
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