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Psalms 73:26
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My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
My flesh fayleth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion for euer.
My flesh and my heart may fail,but God is the strength of my heart,my portion forever.
My flesh and my heart fails, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Maybe my mind and body will become weak, but God is my source of strength. He is mine forever!
My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the rock and strength of my heart and my portion forever.
My flesh and my heart faileth; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
My body and mind may fail, but you are my strength and my choice forever.
My mind and body may fail; but God is the rock for my mind and my portion forever.
My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
My heart and my flesh have failed: but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion for ever.
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
My flesh and heart failed, but God is the strength of my heart and my reward forever.
My flesh and my heart waste away; God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever.
My body and my mind may become weak, but God is my strength. He is mine forever.
My flesh and my heart may grow weak, but God always protects my heart and gives me stability.
My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever.
My body and my heart may grow weak, but God is the strength of my heart and all I need forever.
Failed have my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart - and my portion, is God unto times age-abiding.
(72-26) 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.
My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
My mind and my body may grow weak, but God is my strength; he is all I ever need.
My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
My fleshe and my heart fayleth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for euer.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
Mi fleische and myn herte failide; God of myn herte, and my part is God withouten ende.
Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.
My flesh and my heart fails, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
My flesh and my heart fails; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.
My flesh and my herte fayleth, but God is the strength of my hert, and my porcion for euer.
My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
My flesh and my heart fail,But God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
flesh: Psalms 63:1, Psalms 84:2, Psalms 119:81, Psalms 119:82, Job 13:15, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Philippians 1:21, 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 2 Peter 1:14
but: Psalms 18:2, Psalms 27:14, Psalms 138:3, Isaiah 40:29-31, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10
strength: Heb. rock
portion: Psalms 16:5, Psalms 16:6, Psalms 119:57, Psalms 142:5, Lamentations 3:24, Revelation 21:3, Revelation 21:4, Revelation 21:7
Reciprocal: Numbers 18:20 - I am thy part 2 Samuel 21:15 - and David waxed faint 2 Samuel 23:5 - desire Psalms 16:8 - he is Psalms 31:9 - my soul Psalms 40:12 - heart Psalms 41:3 - strengthen Psalms 48:14 - this God Psalms 52:9 - for it is Psalms 62:2 - He only Psalms 71:9 - when Proverbs 3:15 - all Jeremiah 10:16 - portion Jeremiah 51:19 - portion Matthew 22:29 - not Luke 14:26 - any Luke 16:9 - when Galatians 4:7 - heir Colossians 3:1 - seek
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My flesh and my heart faileth,.... Either through vehement desires of communion with God deferred, see Psalms 84:2 or through afflictive dispensations of Providence, being smitten and chastened continually, Psalms 73:14, or through inward trials and exercises, by reason of indwelling sin, temptations, and desertions: or rather the words are expressive of the body being emaciated by sickness and diseases; and the heart fainting through fear of death, or rather failing at it, being at the point of death; the heart being, as philosophers say, the first that lives, and the last that dies:
but God is the strength of my heart, or "the rock of my heart" h; when overwhelmed with distress through outward trouble, or in the lowest condition with respect to spiritual things; when grace is weak, corruptions strong, temptations prevail, and afflictions are many; then does the Lord support and sustain his people, and strengthens them with strength in their souls; and in the moment of death, by showing them that its sting is taken away, and its curse removed; that their souls are going to their Lord, and about to enter into his joy; and that their bodies will rise again glorious and incorruptible:
and my portion for ever; both in life and at death, and to all eternity; this is a very large portion indeed; such who have it inherit all things; yea, it is immense and inconceivable; it is a soul satisfying one, and is safe and secure; it can never be taken away, nor can it be spent; it will last always; see Psalms 142:5.
h וור לבבי "rupes cordis mei", Montanus, Musculus, Piscator, Cocceius, "petra cordis mei", Tigurine version, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My flesh and my heart faileth - Flesh and heart here seem to refer to the whole man, body and soul; and the idea is, that his powers of body and mind failed; were spent; were exhausted. This seems to have been said in an “ideal” sense, or by anticipation. He does not mean to say that his strength then had actually failed, but he seems to have placed himself by imagination in the situation where his strength “would” be all gone - in sickness, in weakness, in sorrow, on the bed of death. He asks himself now what would be his strength then - what would be the object of chief interest and love - on what he would rely; and he answers without hesitation, and with entire confidence, that he could rely on God, and that He would be his portion forever. Even then, when heart and flesh should fail, when all the powers of mind and body should be exhausted, the love of God would survive, and he would find strength and joy in Him.
But God is the strength of my heart - Margin, as in Hebrew, “rock;” the rock on which my heart relies; that is, my refuge, my defense. See the notes at Psalms 18:2. Compare Psalms 61:2.
And my portion for ever - The source of my happiness. Not wealth, then; not honor; not earthly friends; not fame - will be my reliance and the ground of my hope; but that which I shall regard as most valuable - my supreme joy and rejoicing - will be the fact that God is my friend and portion. With all the doubts which I have had in regard to the rectitude of his government, I am sure that when I come to die, I shall cling to him as my hope, my joy, my all. My last refuge - my sufficient refuge - is God. When people come to die, they have “no other refuge” but God. Nothing that they can accumulate of this world’s goods will meet their needs then, for God only can give strength and comfort on the bed of death. Of each and all, however vigorous they may now be, it will be true that “flesh and heart” will “fail;” of each and all it is true that when this shall occur, none but God can be the portion and the strength of the soul.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 73:26. My flesh - faileth — I shall soon die: and my heart - even my natural courage, will fail; and no support but what is supernatural will then be available. Therefore, he adds, -
God is the strength of my heart — Literally, the rock of my heart.
And my portion — Allusion is here made to the division of the promised land. I ask no inheritance below; I look for one above. I do not look for this in the possession of any place; it is GOD alone that can content the desires and wishes of an immortal spirit. And even this would not satisfy, had I not the prospect of its being for ever, לעולם leolum, "to eternity!'
