Psalms 38 · Verse 10

Psalms 38:10

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

Psalms 38:10, King James Version

Psalms 38:10 in other translations

BSB	My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
WEB	My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
ASV	My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
YLT	My heart is panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.
DARBY	My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.
BBE	My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
Webster	My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of my eyes, that also is gone from me.

What does Psalms 38:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10. My heart panteth--as if barely surviving. light ... from me--utter exhaustion (Psa 6:7; 13:3).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 10 My heart panteth - סחרחר secharchar, flutters, palpitates, through fear and alarm. My strength faileth - Not being able to take nourishment. The light of mine eyes - is gone - I can scarcely discern any thing through the general decay of my health and vigor, particularly affecting my sight.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 38:1-11

Nothing will disquiet the heart of a good man so much as the sense of God's anger. The way to keep the heart quiet, is to keep ourselves in the love of God. But a sense of guilt is too heavy to bear; and would sink men into despair and ruin, unless removed by the pardoning mercy of God. If there were not sin in our souls, there would be no pain in our bones, no illness in our bodies. The guilt of sin is a burden to…

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Psalms 38:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לִבִּ֣יli.Biheart myH3820

סְ֭חַרְחַרSe.char.charit palpitatesH5503

עֲזָבַ֣נִי'a.za.Va.niit has left meH5800

כֹחִ֑יkho.Chistrength myH3581

וְֽאוֹר\־ve.'or-and [the] light ofH216

עֵינַ֥י'ei.Naieyes myH5869

גַּם\־gam-alsoH1571

הֵ֝֗םHemtheyH1992

אֵ֣ין'einnotH369

אִתִּֽי\׃'i.Ti[are] with meH854

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 38:10

Psalms 6:7
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Psalms 88:9
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Psalms 69:3
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Psalms 119:123
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Lamentations 5:16-17
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Psalms 119:81-83
כ CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
1 Samuel 14:27-29
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint. Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Psalms 31:10
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 42:1
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Isaiah 21:4
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Psalms 143:4-7
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands. I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

heart.
42:1; 119:81-83; 143:4-7; Isa 21:4
the light.
6:7; 69:3; 88:9; 119:123; 1Sa 14:27-29; La 2:11; 5:16,17
gone from. Heb. not with.

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Context

Psalms 38:9
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
Psalms 38:10
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

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Psalms 38:10 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Mi corazón está acongojado, hame dejado mi vigor; y aun la misma luz de mis ojos no está conmigo.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Seigneur! tout mon désir est devant toi, et mon gémissement ne t’est point caché.
German Elberfelder 1871	Mein Herz pocht, verlassen hat mich meine Kraft; und das Licht meiner Augen, auch das ist nicht bei mir.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Obmutui, et non aperui os meum, quoniam tu fecisti;