My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
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Gill's Exposition
My flesh and my heart faileth,.... Either through vehement desires of communion with God deferred, see Psa 84:2 or through afflictive dispensations of Providence, being smitten and chastened…
Barnes' Notes
My flesh and my heart faileth - Flesh and heart here seem to refer to the whole man, body and soul; and the idea is, that his powers of body and mind failed; were spent; were exhausted. This seems to…
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…
Cambridge Bible
God is the strength of my heart Lit., the rock of my heart. Though bodily and mental powers fail, God is his sure refuge in every danger (Psa 62:2; Psa 62:6-7), the possession which cannot be taken…
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