What Psalm 73:26 Means

Psalm 73:26

“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.”Psalm 73:26 (KJV)

What Psalm 73:26 means

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. The psalmist is honest that his own strength runs out, and then he finds something underneath the failing: God himself as the strength that does not fail. When everything you leaned on gives way, God remains, and he is enough.

Psalm 73:26 in different translations

King James Version (KJV)My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
World English Bible (WEB)My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
American Standard Version (ASV)My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

Psalm 73:26 in context

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.

A prayer

Father, thank You for Psalm 73:26. Let this word be more than ink to me; write it on my heart, and help me to believe it and live it today. In Jesus' name, amen.

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