Verse 26
26. My flesh and my heart faileth “Flesh” and “heart” contrasted, as here, embrace the total makeup of man. In biblical psychology “heart” is used for the innermost, or central, life of man, and must comprehend here the united psychical and spirit life, as “flesh” does the physical and organic.
Faileth The word is used variously for to come to an end, to faint, to pine, to languish. The failing of the “flesh” would be the going out of animal life, and the failing of the “heart” the sinking of the innermost being into doubt and despair. Both would result without God.
Strength of my heart Hebrew, Rock of my heart. Psalms 18:2. Against this failing of nature faith finds in God its rock.
My portion for ever Hebrew, My portion to eternity. This is spoken of both flesh and heart, soul and body a triumphant hope of eternal life. “It is clear as day that this passage contains the germ of the doctrine of the resurrection.” Delitzsch. Compare Job 19:25-27
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