Psalms 38:10

THE MESSAGE

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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Lord, all my desire is before Thee; and my sighing is not hid from Thee.

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

¹A David Psalm Take a deep breath, God ; calm down— don't be so hasty with your punishing rod. Your sharp-pointed arrows of rebuke draw blood; my backside smarts from your caning. ³I've lost twenty pounds in two months because of your accusation. My bones are brittle as dry sticks because of my sin. I'm swamped by my bad behavior, collapsed under gunnysacks of guilt. ⁵The cuts in my flesh stink and grow maggots because I've lived so badly. And now I'm flat on my face feeling sorry for myself morning to night. All my insides are on fire, my body is a wreck. I'm on my last legs; I've had it— my life is a vomit of groans. ⁹Lord, my longings are sitting in plain sight, my groans an old story to you. My heart's about to break; I'm a burned-out case. Cataracts blind me to God and good; old friends avoid me like the plague. My cousins never visit, my neighbors stab me in the back. My competitors blacken my name, devoutly they pray for my ruin. But I'm deaf and mute to it all, ears shut, mouth shut. I don't hear a word they say, don't speak a word in response. What I do, God , is wait for you, wait for my Lord, my God—you will answer! I wait and pray so they won't laugh me off, won't smugly strut off when I stumble.

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
Judah's sons: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (Er and Onan had already died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

Numbers 11:1
The people fell to grumbling over their hard life. God heard. When he heard his anger flared; then fire blazed up and burned the outer boundaries of the camp. The people cried out for help to Moses; Moses prayed to God and the fire died down. They named the place Taberah (Blaze) because fire from God had blazed up against them.

Numbers 22:34
Balaam said to God 's angel, "I have sinned. I had no idea you were standing in the road blocking my way. If you don't like what I'm doing, I'll head back."

Numbers 26:19
Er and Onan were sons of Judah who died early on in Canaan. The sons of Judah by clans: Shelah and the Shelanite clan, Perez and the Perezite clan, Zerah and the Zerahite clan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and the Hezronite clan, Hamul and the Hamulite clan. These were the clans of Judah. They numbered 76,500.

Proverbs 14:32
The evil of bad people leaves them out in the cold; the integrity of good people creates a safe place for living.

Haggai 1:13
Then Haggai, God 's messenger, preached God 's Message to the people: "I am with you!" God 's Word.

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.