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Psalm 73:26 KJV
Psalms · chapter 73 · verse 26
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.Psalm 73:26 · King James Version
What Psalm 73:26 means
Asaph admits the failing before he claims anything. The psalm opens with him envying the prosperous and nearly losing his footing, and this is the far side of that. Portion is an inheritance word, what's allotted to you. His body gives out and the allotment doesn't.
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Psalm 73:26 in context
24Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
26My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
28But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
Commentary
Cross references
- 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
- Isaiah 40:29-31
- Psalms 138:3
- Psalms 18:2
- 2 Corinthians 4:8-10
- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
- Psalms 16:5-6
- Psalms 84:2
Key words (Strong's)
- strengthtsûwrproperly, a cliffH6697 →
- failethkâlâhto end, whether intransitive or transitivedH3615 →
- portionchêleqproperly, smoothnessH2506 →
- fleshshᵉʼêrflesh , as living or forfoodH7607 →
- heartlêbâbthe heartH3824 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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Behold Samson's riddle again unriddled, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness; for we have here an account of the good improvement which the psalmist made of that sore temptation with which he had been assaulted and by which he was almost overcome.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-28