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Psa 38:10 — My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

heart		Psa 42:1; Psa 119:81-83; Psa 143:4-7; Isa 21:4
the light		Psa 6:7; Psa 69:3; Psa 88:9; Psa 119:123; 1Sa 14:27-29; Lam 2:11; Lam 5:16,17
gone from		Heb. not with.

Correlating Passages

heart

	Psa 42:1	[[To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.]] As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
	Psa 119:81	CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.
	Psa 119:82	Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
	Psa 119:83	For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.
	Psa 143:4	Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
	Psa 143:5	I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
	Psa 143:6	I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
	Psa 143:7	Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
	Isa 21:4	My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

the light

	Psa 6:7	Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
	Psa 69:3	I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
	Psa 88:9	Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
	Psa 119:123	Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
	1Sa 14:27	But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that [was] in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
	1Sa 14:28	Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food this day. And the people were faint.
	1Sa 14:29	Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
	Lam 2:11	Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
	Lam 5:16	The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
	Lam 5:17	For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 38:10," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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