What does Psalms 73:26 mean?

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalms 73:26, King James Version

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The verse in its chapter

Psalms 73:24-28

  1. 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
  2. 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
  3. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
  4. 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
  5. 28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

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About the book of Psalms

Author
several authors; 73 psalms bear David's name in the title
When
from the 10th century BC to after the exile
Period
Reino unido, c. 1050 a 930 a.C. (in Portuguese)

Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.

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