Psalms 22:15

In 11 translations

BSB

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.MT; or My mouth, a possible reading of the original Hebrew text

KJV

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

WEB

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

ASV

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

LSV

My power is dried up as an earthen vessel, || And My tongue is cleaving to My jaws.

YLT

Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

DBY

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.

DRC21:16

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

GNV

My strength is dryed vp like a potsheard, and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

JPS22:16

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my throat; and Thou layest me in the dust of death.

LXXE21:16

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue is glued to my throat; and thou hast brought me down to the dust of death.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC22:16

יָ֘בֵ֤שׁ כַּחֶ֨רֶשׂ ׀ כֹּחִ֗י וּ֭לְשׁוֹנִי מֻדְבָּ֣ק מַלְקוֹחָ֑י וְֽלַעֲפַר־מָ֥וֶת תִּשְׁפְּתֵֽנִי׃KJV:Ps.22.15We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.

LXX-Br21:16

Ἐξηράνθη ὡσεὶ ὄστρακον ἡ ἰσχύς μου, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσά μου κεκόλληται τῷ λάρυγγί μου, καὶ εἰς χοῦν θανάτου κατήγαγές με.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• John 19:28After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
• Psalms 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Psalms 69:21They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
• Isaiah 53:12Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many…
• Psalms 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
• Psalms 38:10My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
• Psalms 32:3–4When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
• Matthew 27:50When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit.
• 1 Corinthians 15:3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
• Job 29:10The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.
• Proverbs 17:22A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
• Lamentations 4:4The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
• Job 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
• Daniel 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Psalms 30:9“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?
• Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

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