“My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 38 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.