Psalms 38:10
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 38 connects to 10 cross-references. A penitential lament of David describing severe physical and social suffering as divine punishment for sin. He acknowledges guilt, confesses iniquity, and describes abandonment by friends and relatives while adversaries scheme. Counted among the seven penitential psalms, it ends with …
Other Translations
My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
My heart <FI>is<Fi> panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.
My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
Cross References
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of …
Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because …
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and …
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands …
My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.