Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

My flesh and my heart faileth; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

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.

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

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

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 have I in heaven but thee ? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, departing from thee.


Cross References

Psalm 84:2

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

Psalm 18:2

Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.

Job 13:15

Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

Psalm 16:5-6

Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.

Psalm 63:1

O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.

Psalm 119:57

HHETH. Jehovah is my portion: I have said that I would observe thy words.

Psalm 119:81-82

KAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; But I hope in thy word.

Psalm 138:3

In the day that I called thou answeredst me, Thou didst encourage me with strength in my soul.

Psalm 142:5

I cried unto thee, O Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.

Isaiah 40:29-31

He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

Lamentations 3:24

Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

2 Corinthians 4:8-10

we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Philippians 1:21

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

2 Timothy 4:6-8

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come.

2 Peter 1:14

knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle cometh swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ signified unto me.

Revelation 21:3-4

And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God:

Revelation 21:7

He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

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