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
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction …
Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because …
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of …
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them …
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.