Psalms 73 · Verse 26

Psalms 73:26

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalms 73:26, King James Version

Psalms 73:26 in other translations

BSBMy flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
WEBMy flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
ASVMy flesh and my heart faileth; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
YLTConsumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.
DARBYMy flesh and my heart faileth:God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
BBEMy flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.
WebsterMy flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

What does Psalms 73:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 73:25-26

25-26. God is his only satisfying good.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 My flesh - faileth - I shall soon die: and my heart - even my natural courage, will fail; and no support but what is supernatural will then be available. Therefore, he adds: God is the strength of my heart - Literally, the rock of my heart. And my portion - Allusion is here made to the division of the promised land. I ask no inheritance below; I look for one above. I do not look for this in the possession of any place; it is God alone that can content the desires and wishes of an immortal spirit. And even this would not satisfy, had I not the prospect of its being for ever, לעולם leolum, "to eternity!'

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 73:21-28

God would not suffer his people to be tempted, if his grace were not sufficient, not only to save them from harm, but to make them gainers by it. This temptation, the working of envy and discontent, is very painful. In reflecting upon it, the psalmist owns it was his folly and ignorance thus to vex himself. If good men, at any time, through the surprise and strength of temptation, think, or speak, or act amiss, they…

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Psalms 73:26 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.

כָּלָ֥הka.Lahit had come to an endH3615
שְׁאֵרִ֗יshe.'e.Riflesh myH7607
וּלְבָ֫בִ֥יu.le.Va.Viand heart myH3824
צוּר\־tzur-[is] [the] rock ofH6697
לְבָבִ֥יle.va.Viheart myH3824
וְחֶלְקִ֗יve.chel.Kiand portion myH2506
אֱלֹהִ֥ים'E.lo.HimGodH430
לְעוֹלָֽם\׃le.'o.Lamfor everH5769

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

Cross references for Psalms 73:26

  • 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 will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

  • Isaiah 40:29-31

    He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

  • Psalms 138:3

    In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

  • Psalms 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.

  • 2 Corinthians 4:8-10

    We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

  • 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

    For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

  • Psalms 16:5-6

    The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

  • Psalms 84:2

    My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

  • Psalms 63:1

    A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

  • Lamentations 3:24

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

  • Psalms 142:5

    I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

  • Psalms 27:14

    Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
flesh.
63:1; 84:2; 119:81,82; Job 13:15; 2Co 4:8-10,16-18; Php 1:21
2Ti 4:6-8; 2Pe 1:14
but.
18:2; 27:14; 138:3; Isa 40:29-31; 2Co 12:9,10
strength. Heb. rock. portion.
16:5,6; 119:57; 142:5; La 3:24; Re 21:3,4,7

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Context

  • Psalms 73:25

    Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

  • Psalms 73:26

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

  • Psalms 73:27

    For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

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Psalms 73:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Mi carne y mi corazón desfallecen: mas la roca de mi corazón y mi porción es Dios para siempre.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ma chair et mon cœur sont consumés; Dieu est le rocher de mon cœur, et mon partage pour toujours.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Vergeht mein Fleisch und mein Herz-meines Herzens Fels und mein Teil ist Gott auf ewig.