Psalm 73:26
New International Version
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

New Living Translation
My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever.

English Standard Version
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Berean Standard Bible
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

King James Bible
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

New King James Version
My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

New American Standard Bible
My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

NASB 1995
My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

NASB 1977
My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Legacy Standard Bible
My flesh and my heart fail, But God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever.

Amplified Bible
My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the rock and strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Christian Standard Bible
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart, my portion forever.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart, my portion forever.

American Standard Version
My flesh and my heart faileth; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For behold, your distant ones shall be destroyed and you shall destroy all who go astray from you for eternity.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
My heart and my flesh have failed: but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion for ever.

Contemporary English Version
My body and mind may fail, but you are my strength and my choice forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

English Revised Version
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My body and mind may waste away, but God remains the foundation of my life and my inheritance forever.

Good News Translation
My mind and my body may grow weak, but God is my strength; he is all I ever need.

International Standard Version
My body and mind may fail, but God is my strength and my portion forever.

JPS Tanakh 1917
My flesh and my heart faileth; But God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.

Literal Standard Version
My flesh and my heart have been consumed, | God [is] the rock of my heart and my portion for all time.

Majority Standard Bible
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

New American Bible
Though my flesh and my heart fail, God is the rock of my heart, my portion forever.

NET Bible
My flesh and my heart may grow weak, but God always protects my heart and gives me stability.

New Revised Standard Version
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

New Heart English Bible
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Webster's Bible Translation
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

World English Bible
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Young's Literal Translation
Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
25Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You. 26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 27Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.…

Cross References
Job 19:27
I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

Psalm 16:5
The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.

Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

Psalm 38:10
My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.

Psalm 40:12
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

Psalm 84:2
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Psalm 119:81
My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.


Treasury of Scripture

My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

flesh

Psalm 63:1
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Psalm 84:2
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Psalm 119:81,82
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word…

but

Psalm 18:2
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Psalm 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Psalm 138:3
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

strength.

Psalm 16:5,6
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot…

Psalm 119:57
CHETH. Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

Psalm 142:5
I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

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Psalm 73
1. The prophet, prevailing in a temptation
2. Shows the occasion thereof, the prosperity of the wicked
13. The wound given thereby, diffidence
15. The victory over it, knowledge of God's purpose.














Verse 26. - My flesh and my heart faileth. The meaning is, "Though my flesh and my heart fail utterly, though my whole corporeal and animal nature fade away and come to nothing, yet something in the nature of a heart - the true 'I,' consciousness, will remain, and will be upheld by God." God is the Strength of my heart, and my Portion forever. "A strong assertion of personal immortality" (Cook). "This is the mysticism of faith; we are on the verge of St. Paul's conception of the πνεῦμα, the organ of life in God" (Cheyne).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
My flesh
שְׁאֵרִ֗י (šə·’ê·rî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7607: Flesh, as living, for, food, food of any kind, kindred by blood

and my heart
וּלְבָ֫בִ֥י (ū·lə·ḇā·ḇî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3824: Inner man, mind, will, heart

may fail,
כָּלָ֥ה (kā·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

but God
אֱלֹהִ֥ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

is the strength
צוּר־ (ṣūr-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6697: A cliff, a rock, boulder, a refuge, an edge

of my heart
לְבָבִ֥י (lə·ḇā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3824: Inner man, mind, will, heart

and my portion
וְחֶלְקִ֗י (wə·ḥel·qî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2506: Portion, tract, territory

forever.
לְעוֹלָֽם׃ (lə·‘ō·w·lām)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always


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