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Monday, November 25th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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King James Version

Psalms 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Bowels;   Heart;   Persecution;   Wax;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Suffering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Paschal Lamb, Typical Nature of;   Prophecies Respecting Christ;   Water;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Psalms, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Revelation, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wax;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aijeleth Shahar;   Fasting;   Mizpah;   Samuel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bones;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   Bones;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lord's Table, the;   ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   Naphtali;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Wax;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bone;   Wax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eschatology;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
My life is poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.
English Revised Version
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Update Bible Version
I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted inside me.
New Century Version
My strength is gone, like water poured out onto the ground, and my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it has melted inside me.
New English Translation
My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.
Webster's Bible Translation
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
World English Bible
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
Amplified Bible
I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted [by anguish] within me.
English Standard Version
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I am sched out as watir; and alle my boonys ben scaterid. Myn herte is maad, as wex fletynge abrood; in the myddis of my wombe.
Berean Standard Bible
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
Contemporary English Version
I have no more strength than a few drops of water. All my bones are out of joint; my heart is like melted wax.
American Standard Version
I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
Bible in Basic English
I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.
Complete Jewish Bible
They open their mouths wide against me, like ravening, roaring lions.
Darby Translation
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Easy-to-Read Version
My strength is gone, like water poured out on the ground. My bones have separated. My courage is gone.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They open wide their mouth against me, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
King James Version (1611)
I am powred out like water, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart is like waxe, it is melted in the middest of my bowels.
New Life Bible
I am poured out like water. And all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like a melted candle within me.
New Revised Standard
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
Geneva Bible (1587)
I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels.
George Lamsa Translation
I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is melted like wax, and my bowels are wasted in the midst of me.
Good News Translation
My strength is gone, gone like water spilled on the ground. All my bones are out of joint; my heart is like melted wax.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Like water, am I poured out, and, put out of joint, are all my bones, - My heart, hath become, like wax, it is melted in the midst of my body;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-15) I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.
Revised Standard Version
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax, it is melted within my breast;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am as [it were] into water resolued, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart also is like waxe melted in the middest of my bowels.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are loosened: my heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax.
Christian Standard Bible®
I am poured out like water,and all my bones are disjointed;my heart is like wax,melting within me.
Hebrew Names Version
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
Lexham English Bible
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
Literal Translation
I am poured out like waters, and all My bones are spread apart; My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of My bowels.
Young's Literal Translation
As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am poured out like water, all my bones are out of ioynt: my hert in the myddest off my body is euen like meltinge waxe.
THE MESSAGE
I'm a bucket kicked over and spilled, every joint in my body has been pulled apart. My heart is a blob of melted wax in my gut. I'm dry as a bone, my tongue black and swollen. They have laid me out for burial in the dirt.
New American Standard Bible
I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
New King James Version
I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has melted within Me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
Legacy Standard Bible
I am poured out like water,And all my bones are out of joint;My heart is like wax;It is melted within me.

Contextual Overview

11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 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. 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord : O my strength, haste thee to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I am: Joshua 7:5, Matthew 26:38, Luke 22:44, John 12:27

all: Psalms 22:17, Daniel 5:6

out of joint: or, sundered

heart: Psalms 68:2, Joshua 7:5, Job 23:16, Mark 14:33, Mark 14:34

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:8 - roast Exodus 29:13 - all the fat Leviticus 2:4 - meat offering Leviticus 2:9 - an offering Leviticus 3:11 - burn Leviticus 3:14 - the fat that covereth Leviticus 4:19 - General Leviticus 8:28 - Moses Numbers 19:5 - General Deuteronomy 16:7 - roast Judges 15:18 - he was sore 2 Samuel 14:14 - as water 2 Chronicles 35:13 - roasted Job 19:20 - bone Job 30:16 - my soul Psalms 6:3 - My Psalms 31:9 - my soul Psalms 35:10 - All Psalms 58:7 - General Psalms 88:15 - while Psalms 102:3 - my bones Psalms 107:26 - their soul Psalms 109:24 - knees Psalms 119:28 - soul Psalms 119:107 - afflicted Psalms 142:3 - my spirit Isaiah 53:12 - poured Lamentations 1:13 - above Lamentations 1:20 - my bowels Lamentations 2:11 - my liver Lamentations 3:4 - he hath Jonah 2:7 - my soul Nahum 2:10 - the heart Matthew 27:50 - yielded John 19:36 - that the

Cross-References

Genesis 22:4
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Genesis 22:5
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Genesis 22:14
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
Genesis 22:17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Genesis 28:19
And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
Genesis 32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
Exodus 17:15
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I am poured out like water,.... This may refer to Christ's sweat in the garden, when through his agony or conflict with Satan, and his vehemency in prayer, and the pressure on his mind, in a view of his people's sins, and the wrath of God for, them, and the accursed death he was about to undergo on that account, sweat in great abundance came from all parts of his body, and not only stood in large drops, but fell to the ground like great drops of blood; so that his body was all covered with water, or rather seemed to be dissolving into water, or else to the quantity of tears he shed both there and elsewhere; his sorrow was great even unto death, which vented itself in floods of tears; his prayers were offered up with strong crying and tears; his head was, as Jeremiah wished his might be, as waters, and his eyes a fountain of tears, yea, his whole body seemed to be bathed with them: or else to the shedding of his blood, and the pouring out his soul unto death for his people, which was voluntarily done by himself, or by his enemies; which they shed like water, and made no account of it,

Psalms 79:3. Some have thought this respects the opinion some had of him, even some of his own disciples, when he was dead; all their hopes of his being their Redeemer and Saviour being gone, he was as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up; see 2 Samuel 14:14; but rather the phrase intends his being quite dispirited, his heart failing, his soul sorrowful unto death, his hands feeble, his knees weak like water, and he just ready to faint and die; see Joshua 7:5 Ezekiel 7:17;

and all my bones are out of joint; not through the stretching of his body on the cross, which seems to be designed in Psalms 22:17; but as it is with persons in a panic, their joints seem to be loosed, and their bones parting asunder, their legs tremble, no member can perform its office, but as if everyone was dislocated and out of its place; see Psalms 6:2;

my heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels; as wax melts before the fire, so did the heart of Christ at the wrath and fury of God, which was poured forth like fire upon him; and which he had a sense of, when in the garden and on the cross, bearing the sins of his people, and sustaining the punishment due unto them for it was not because of his enemies, nor merely at the presence of God, and his righteous judgments, which is sometimes the case; see 2 Samuel 17:10; but at the apprehension of divine wrath, and feeling the same, as the surety of his people; and what an idea does this give of the wrath of God! for if the heart of Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, melted at it, what heart can endure, or hands be strong, when God deals with them in his wrath? Ezekiel 22:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am poured out like water - The sufferer now turns from his enemies, and describes the effect of all these outward persecutions and trials on himself. The meaning in this expression is, that all his strength was gone. It is remarkable that we have a similar expression, which is not easily accounted for, when we say of ourselves that “we are as weak as water.” An expression similar to this occurs in Joshua 7:5 : “The hearts of the people melted, and became as water.” Compare Lamentations 2:19; Psalms 58:7. “My bones are out of joint.” Margin, “sundered.” The Hebrew word - פרד pârad - means “to break off, to break in pieces, to separate by breaking;” and then, to be separated, or divided. It is not necessary to suppose here that his bones were literally dislocated or “put out of joint,” anymore than it is necessary to suppose that he was literally “poured out like water,” or that his heart was literally “melted like wax” within him. The meaning is that he was utterly prostrated and powerless; he was as if his bones had been dislocated, and he was unable to use his limbs.

My heart is like wax - The idea here also is that of debility. His strength seemed all to be gone. His heart was no longer firm; his vigour was exhausted.

It is melted in the midst of my bowels - Or, within me. The word bowels in the Scriptures is not restricted in its signification as it is with us. It embraces the upper parts of the viscera as well as the lower, and consequently would include that part in which the heart is situated. See the notes at Isaiah 16:11. The meaning here is that his heart was no longer firm and strong. As applied to the Redeemer, this would refer to the prostration of his strength in his last struggle; and no one can prove that these thoughts did not pass through his mind when on the cross.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:14. I am poured out like water — That is, as the old Psalter: Thai rought na mare to sla me than to spil water.

The images in this verse are strongly descriptive of a person in the deepest distress; whose strength, courage, hope, and expectation of succour and relief, had entirely failed.

Our Lord's sufferings were extreme; but I cannot think there is any sound theologic sense in which these things can be spoken of Christ, either in his agony in the garden, or his death upon the cross.


 
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