Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Holman Bible
and even the light of my eyes has faded.
International Standard Version
My heart pounds, my strength fails me, even the gleam in my eye is gone.
American Standard Version
My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Amplified
My heart throbs violently, my strength fails me;
And as for the light of my eyes, even that has also gone from me.
Darby Translation
My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.
Julia Smith Translation
O Jehovah, before thee all my desire, and my sighing was not hid from thee.
King James 2000
My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.
Modern King James verseion
My heart pants; my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My heart panteth, my strength hath failed me, and the light of mine eyes is gone from me.
NET Bible
My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.
New Heart English Bible
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
The Emphasized Bible
My heart, fluttereth, my strength hath forsaken me, and, as for the light of mine eyes, even they, are not with me:
Webster
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of my eyes, that also is gone from me.
World English Bible
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
Youngs Literal Translation
My heart is panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.
Topics
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 38:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Of A Suffering Sinner
9 LORD, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10 My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me. 11 Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Cross References
Psalm 6:7
My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalm 88:9
My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.
1 Samuel 14:27-29
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath, therefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened.
Psalm 31:10
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.
Psalm 42:1
As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, O God.
Psalm 119:81-83
My soul faints for thy salvation. I hope in thy word.
Psalm 119:123
My eyes fail for thy salvation, and for thy righteous word.
Psalm 143:4-7
Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
Isaiah 21:4
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 5:16-17
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.