Psalms 38:10 · KJV
“My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. {is gone...: Heb. is not with me}”
— Psalms 38:10
Lord, all my desire {is} before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. {sore: Heb. stroke} {my kinsmen: or, my neighbours}
Psalms 38 — Context
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9Lord, all my desire {is} before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. {is gone...: Heb. is not with me}
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. {sore: Heb. stroke} {my kinsmen: or, my neighbours}
12They also that seek after my life lay snares {for me}: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Cross References
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! {The...: Heb. The crown of our head is fallen}
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. {swoon: or, faint}
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 119:81-83
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: {but} I hope in thy word.