Psalms 38:10 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 38:10

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

BSB

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ASV

My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

KJV

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

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Commentary

3 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (1870)

My heart panteth. Here begins another tale of woe. He was so dreadfully pained by the unkindness of friends, that his heart was in a state of perpetual palpitation. Sharp and quick were the beatings of his heart; he was like a hunted roe, filled with distressing alarms, and ready to fly out of itself with fear. The soul seeks sympathy in sorrow, and if it finds none, its sorrowful heart throbs are incessant. My strength faileth me. What with disease and distraction, he was weakened and ready to expire.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

David was famed for his courage and great exploits; and yet, when God contended with him by bodily sickness and the impressions of his wrath upon his mind, his hair is cut, his heart fails him, and he becomes weak as water. Therefore let not the strongman glory in his strength, nor any man set grief at defiance, however it may be thought at a distance.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Our Lord Jesus, when he suffered, threatened not, because he committed himself to him that judges righteously ( 1 Pet. ii. 23 ); and we shall lose nothing, at last, by doing so.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לִבִּ֣י	li.Bi	heart my	H3820 →
סְ֭חַרְחַר	Se.char.char	it palpitates	H5503 →
עֲזָבַ֣נִי	'a.za.Va.ni	it has left me	H5800 →
כֹחִ֑י	kho.Chi	strength my	H3581 →
וְֽאוֹר־	ve.'or-	and [the] light of	H216 →
עֵינַ֥י	'ei.Nai	eyes my	H5869 →
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
הֵ֝֗ם	Hem	they	H1992 →
אֵ֣ין	'ein	not	H369 →
אִתִּֽי׃	'i.Ti	[are] with me	H854 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 69:3
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
leads to
- Psalms 6:6
  I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- Psalms 119:82
  My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
- Psalms 119:123
  My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
- Isaiah 38:14
  I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
- Deuteronomy 28:32
  Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
Through
Psalms 88:9
My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
leads to
- Job 11:13
  As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
- Psalms 86:3
  Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.
Through
Psalms 119:123
My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
leads to
- Psalms 130:6
  My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning— more than watchmen wait for the morning.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms