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JPS Old Testament

Psalms 38:10

Lord, all my desire is before Thee; and my sighing is not hid from Thee.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Conviction;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Body;   Frailty of Man;   Human;   Man;   Transient-Enduring;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Eye;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Zion;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Pant;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for May 13;   Every Day Light - Devotion for December 31;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My heart races, my strength leaves me,and even the light of my eyes has faded.
Hebrew Names Version
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
King James Version
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
English Standard Version
My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
New Century Version
My heart pounds, and my strength is gone. I am losing my sight.
New English Translation
My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.
Amplified Bible
My heart throbs violently, my strength fails me; And as for the light of my eyes, even that has also gone from me.
New American Standard Bible
My heart throbs, my strength fails me; And the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me.
World English Bible
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Mine heart panteth: my strength faileth me, and the light of mine eyes, euen they are not mine owne.
Legacy Standard Bible
My heart throbs, my strength forsakes me;And the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me.
Berean Standard Bible
My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
Contemporary English Version
My heart is beating fast. I feel weak all over, and my eyes are red.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
Darby Translation
My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.
Easy-to-Read Version
My heart is pounding. My strength is gone, and I am going blind.
George Lamsa Translation
My heart is broken, my strength hath failed me; as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Good News Translation
My heart is pounding, my strength is gone, and my eyes have lost their brightness.
Lexham English Bible
My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.
Literal Translation
My heart throbs; my power forsakes me! And the light of my eyes, they also are not with me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My hert paunteth, my strength hath fayled me, & the light of myne eyes is gone fro me.
American Standard Version
My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Bible in Basic English
My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
King James Version (1611)
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eies, it also is gone from me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My heart panteth, my strength hath fayled me: and the lyght of myne eyes is gone from me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of mine eyes is not with me.
English Revised Version
My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Myn herte is disturblid in me, my vertu forsook me; and the liyt of myn iyen `forsook me, and it is not with me.
Update Bible Version
My heart throbs, my strength fails me: As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.
Webster's Bible Translation
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of my eyes, that also is gone from me.
New King James Version
My heart pants, my strength fails me; As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.
New Living Translation
My heart beats wildly, my strength fails, and I am going blind.
New Life Bible
My heart beats fast. My strength leaves me. Even the light of my eyes has gone from me.
New Revised Standard
My heart throbs, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My heart, fluttereth, my strength hath forsaken me, and, as for the light of mine eyes, even they, are not with me:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(37-11) My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.
Revised Standard Version
My heart throbs, my strength fails me; and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.
Young's Literal Translation
My heart [is] panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
My heart throbs, my strength fails me; And the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me.

Contextual Overview

1 A Psalm of David, to make memorial. 2 O LORD, rebuke me not in Thine anger; neither chasten me in Thy wrath. 3 For Thine arrows are gone deep into me, and Thy hand is come down upon me. 4 There is no soundness in my flesh because of Thine indignation; neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. 5 For mine iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 6 My wounds are noisome, they fester, because of my foolishness. 7 I am bent and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day. 8 For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh. 9 I am benumbed and sore crushed; I groan by reason of the moaning of my heart. 10 Lord, all my desire is before Thee; and my sighing is not hid from Thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

heart: Psalms 42:1, Psalms 119:81-83, Psalms 143:4-7, Isaiah 21:4

the light: Psalms 6:7, Psalms 69:3, Psalms 88:9, Psalms 119:123, 1 Samuel 14:27-29, Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 5:16, Lamentations 5:17

gone from: Heb. not with

Reciprocal: Psalms 31:22 - I am Luke 10:31 - he passed

Cross-References

Genesis 46:12
And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Numbers 11:1
And the people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
Numbers 22:34
And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD: 'I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me; now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back.'
Numbers 26:19
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
2 Samuel 11:27
And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
1 Chronicles 21:7
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He smote Israel.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is thrust down in his misfortune; but the righteous, even when he is brought to death, hath hope.
Proverbs 24:18
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him.
Jeremiah 44:4
Howbeit I sent unto you all My servants the prophets, sending them betimes and often, saying: Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
Haggai 1:13
Then spoke Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying: 'I am with you, saith the LORD.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My heart panteth,.... Or "goes about" m; runs here and there, and finds no rest; as Aben Ezra interprets the word from the Targum he cites; though the Targum we have renders it, "my heart shakes with fear", or dread, as persons in a fever. Jarchi interprets the word, surrounded with grief; it denotes the panting or palpitation of the heart, through sorrow and dread, and the failing of it, even as at death;

my strength faileth me, or "forsakes me" n; bodily strength and spiritual strength; the strength of faith, hope, and confidence;

as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me; which is often the case of persons under bodily disorders, their eyes grow dim, and sight fails them; and this might be true in a spiritual sense of the psalmist, who had lost sight of God as his covenant God; of his interest in his love, in the blessings of his grace, and in eternal salvation, and was walking in darkness, and saw no light.

m סחרחר "circuivit", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus. n עזבני "dereliquit me", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Musculus, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My heart panteth - The word rendered “panteth,” in its original form, means properly to go about; to travel around; and then, to travel around as a merchant or pedlar, or for purposes of traffic: Genesis 23:16; Genesis 37:28; Genesis 42:34. Applied to the heart, as it is here, it means to move about rapidly; to palpitate; to beat quick. It is an expression of pain and distress, indicated by a rapid beating of the heart.

My strength faileth me - It is rapidly failing. He regarded himself as rapidly approaching death.

As for the light of mine eyes - My vision; my sight.

It also is gone from me - Margin, as in Hebrew: “is not with me.” This is usually an indication of approaching death; and it would seem from all these symptoms that he appeared to be drawing near to the end of life. Compare Psalms 13:3; Psalms 6:7; Psalms 31:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 38:10. My heart panteth — סחרחר secharchar, flutters, palpitates, through fear and alarm.

My strength faileth — Not being able to take nourishment.

The light of mine eyes - is gone — I can scarcely discern any thing through the general decay of my health and vigour, particularly affecting my sight.


 
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