Parallel Verses

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.

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 have I in heaven but thee? And apart from thee there is nothing upon the earth that I desire. 26 My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
27 For, behold, those that stray from thee shall perish; thou dost cut off all those that go a whoring from thee.

Cross References

Psalm 84:2

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing to the living God.

Psalm 18:2

The LORD is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to see; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me.

Job 13:15

Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.

Psalm 16:5-6

The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup; thou dost maintain my lot.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, for the LORD.

Psalm 63:1

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh longs for thee in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water;

Psalm 119:57

CHETH My portion, O LORD, I have said, will be to keep thy words.

Psalm 119:81-82

CAPH. My soul faints with desire for thy salvation as I await thy word.

Psalm 138:3

In the day when I called, thou didst answer me and strengthen me with strength in my soul.

Psalm 142:5

I cried unto thee, O LORD; I said, Thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the living.

Isaiah 40:29-31

He gives power to the faint; and to those that have no might he increases strength.

Lamentations 3:24

Chet The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will wait for him.

2 Corinthians 4:8-10

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are unsure of our lives, but not in despair;

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Therefore we fault not; but though our outward man is wearing out, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

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

Philippians 1:21

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

2 Timothy 4:6-8

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my release is at hand.

2 Peter 1:14

knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has declared unto me.

Revelation 21:3-4

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God.

Revelation 21:7

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

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