Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

My body and mind may fail, but God is my strength 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.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

A Conservative Version

My flesh and my heart fails, [but] God is the strength of my heart and 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.

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

Darby Translation

My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.

Julia Smith Translation

My flesh failed and my heart: the rock of my heart and my portion is God forever.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

My flesh and heart failed, [but] God [is] the {strength} of my heart and my reward forever.

Modern King James verseion

My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart, and my part forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Failed have my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart - and my portion, is God unto times age-abiding.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

References

Hastings

Images Psalm 73:26

Context Readings

God's Ways Vindicated

25 Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire nothing on this earth. 26 My body and mind may fail, but God is my strength and my portion forever. 27 Those far from you will perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.


Cross References

Psalm 84:2

I desire and long for the Temple courts of the LORD. My heart and body sing for joy to the living God.

Psalm 18:2

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my stronghold in whom I take refuge, my shield, the glory of my salvation, and my high tower."

Psalm 40:12

Innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me so that I cannot see. They are more in number than the hair on my head, and my courage has forsaken me.

Job 13:15

Even though he kills me, I'll continue to hope in him. At least I'll be able to argue my case to his face!

Psalm 16:5-6

The LORD is my inheritance and my cup; you support my lot.

Psalm 27:14

Wait on the LORD. Be courageous, and he will strengthen your heart. Wait on the LORD! Davidic

Psalm 63:1

God, you are my God! I will fervently seek you. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you in a dry, weary, and parched land.

Psalm 119:57

The LORD is my inheritance; I have given my promise to keep your word.

Psalm 119:81-82

I long for your deliverance; I have looked to your word, placing my hope in it.

Psalm 138:3

When I called out, you answered me; you strengthened me.

Psalm 142:5

So I cry to you, Lord, declaring, "You are my refuge, my only possession while I am on this earth."

Isaiah 40:29-31

He's the one who gives might to the faint, renewing strength for the powerless.

Lamentations 3:24

"The LORD is all I have," says my soul, "Therefore I will trust in him."

2 Corinthians 4:8-10

In every way we're troubled but not crushed, frustrated but not in despair,

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

That's why we are not discouraged. No, even if outwardly we are wearing out, inwardly we are being renewed each and every day.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, because my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the Messiah's power may rest on me.

Philippians 1:21

For to me, to go on living is the Messiah, and to die is gain.

2 Timothy 4:6-8

I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for my departure has come.

2 Peter 1:14

because I know that the removal of my bodily tent will come soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, has shown me.

Revelation 21:3-4

I heard a loud voice from the throne say, "See, the tent of God is among humans! He will make his home with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them, and he will be their God.

Revelation 21:7

The person who conquers will inherit these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

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