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Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

Psalms 38:10

In 11 translations

BSB
My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
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
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.
LSV
My heart [is] panting, my power has forsaken me, || And the light of my eyes, || Even they are not with me.
YLT
My heart [is] panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.
DBY
My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.
DRC37:11
My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.
GNV
Mine heart panteth: my strength faileth me, and the light of mine eyes, euen they are not mine owne.
JPS38:11
My heart fluttereth, my strength faileth me; as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
LXXE37:11
My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of mine eyes is not with me.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC38:11
לִבִּ֣י סְ֭חַרְחַר עֲזָבַ֣נִי כֹחִ֑י וְֽאוֹר־עֵינַ֥י גַּם־הֵ֝֗ם אֵ֣ין אִתִּֽי׃KJV:Ps.38.10
LXX-Br37:11
Ἡ καρδία μου ἐταράχθη, ἐγκατέλιπέ με ἡ ἰσχύς μου, καὶ τὸ φῶς τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν μου οὐκ ἔστι μετʼ ἐμοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 6:7My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
  • Psalms 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
  • Psalms 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
  • Lamentations 5:16–17The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
  • Psalms 119:123My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
  • Isaiah 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
  • 1 Samuel 14:27–29Jonathan, however, had not heard that his father had charged the people with the oath. So he reached out the end of the staff in his hand, dipped it into the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes…
  • Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
  • Psalms 31:10For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
  • Psalms 143:4–7My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands. I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like…
  • Psalms 119:81–83My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word. My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?” Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
  • Lamentations 2:11My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 38:11 in some Bibles
  • 38:10 in most Bibles

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