Psalms 38:10
My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
In Context
9LORD, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.
11Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Cross References
Psalms 6:7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Psalms 42:1As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, O God.
Psalms 88:9My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.
Psalms 119:123My eyes fail for thy salvation, and for thy righteous word.
Isaiah 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:2-12
Sorrowful Complaints. 1 O Lord , rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7… Read the whole commentary →