Psalm 73:26 {72:26}
Good News Translation
My mind and my body may grow weak, but God is my strength; he is all I ever need.

New Revised Standard Version
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Contemporary English Version
My body and mind may fail, but you are my strength and my choice forever.

New American Bible
Though my flesh and my heart fail, God is the rock of my heart, my portion forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

flesh

Psalm 63:1 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Psalm 84:2 my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

Psalm 119:81,82 My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped. . . .

Job 13:15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

2 Corinthians 4:8-10,16-18 In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute. . . .

Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ: and to die is gain.

2 Timothy 4:6-8 For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand. . . .

2 Peter 1:14 Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

but

Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Psalm 27:14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

Psalm 138:3 In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt multiply strength in my soul.

Isaiah 40:29-31 It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:9,10 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. . . .

strength.

Psalm 16:5,6 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me. . . .

Psalm 119:57 O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep thy law.

Psalm 142:5 I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

Lamentations 3:24 Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

Revelation 21:3,4,7 And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men: and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people: and God himself with them shall be their God. . . .

Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
25For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth? 26For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.27For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.…
Cross References
Job 19:27
Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.

Psalm 16:5
The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 38:10
My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.

Psalm 40:12
For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Psalm 84:2
my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

Psalm 119:81
My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.

Psalm 142:5
I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

Psalm 143:7
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Jeremiah 10:16
The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 51:19
The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all things he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Lamentations 3:24
Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

Psalm 73:25
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