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the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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King James Version

Psalms 22:15

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Potsherds;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Psalms, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Revelation, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adam (1);   Aijeleth Shahar;   Potsherd;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dust;   Potsherd;   Vessels and Utensils;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Potsherd;   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 - Cleave;   Dry dried drieth;   Potsherd;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Dust;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chameleon;   Cheek;   Dust;   Jaw;   Mouth;   Potsherd;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eschatology;   Wax;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.
English Revised Version
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.
Update Bible Version
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaves to my jaws; And you have brought me into the dust of death.
New Century Version
My strength has dried up like a clay pot, and my tongue sticks to the top of my mouth. You laid me in the dust of death.
New English Translation
The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
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.
Amplified Bible
My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery; And my [dry] tongue clings to my jaws; And You have laid me in the dust of death.
English Standard Version
my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi vertu driede as a tiyl stoon, and my tunge cleuede to my chekis; and thou hast brouyt forth me in to the dust of deth.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
My strength has dried up like a broken clay pot, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You, God, have left me to die in the dirt.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
Complete Jewish Bible
I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint; my heart has become like wax — it melts inside me;
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
My mouth is as dry as a piece of baked pottery. My tongue is sticking to the roof of my mouth. You have left me dying in the dust.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint;
King James Version (1611)
My strength is dried vp like a potsheard: and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
New Life Bible
My strength is dried up like a piece of a broken clay pot. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. And You lay me in the dust of death.
New Revised Standard
my mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
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.
George Lamsa Translation
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and thou hast thrown me into the dust of death.
Good News Translation
My throat is as dry as dust, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have left me for dead in the dust.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Dried as a potsherd, is my strength, And, my tongue, is made to cleave to my gums, And, in the dust of death, wilt thou lay me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-16) 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.
Revised Standard Version
my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My strength is dried vp like a potsheard, & my tongue cleaueth to my gummes: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
My strength is dried up like baked clay;my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.You put me into the dust of death.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking to my jaws; and you have placed me in the dust of death.
Literal Translation
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and My tongue clings to My jaws;
Young's Literal Translation
Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My strength is dried vp like a potsherde, my tunge cleueth to my goomes, and thou hast brought me in to the dust of death.
New American Standard Bible
My strength is dried up like a piece of pottery, And my tongue clings to my jaws; And You lay me in the dust of death.
New King James Version
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And my tongue cleaves to my jaws; And You lay me in the dust of death.
Legacy Standard Bible
My strength is dried up like a potsherd,And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;And You lay me in the dust of death.

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

strength: Psalms 32:3, Psalms 32:4, Proverbs 17:22

tongue: Psalms 69:3, Psalms 69:21, Job 29:10, Lamentations 4:4, John 19:28

into the: Psalms 30:9, Psalms 104:29, Genesis 3:19, Genesis 18:27, Job 7:21, Job 10:9, Job 34:15, Isaiah 53:12, Daniel 12:2, Matthew 27:50, 1 Corinthians 15:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 3:14 - the fat that covereth Deuteronomy 16:7 - roast Judges 15:18 - he was sore Job 33:21 - his bones Psalms 31:9 - my soul Psalms 88:15 - while Psalms 102:3 - my bones Psalms 113:7 - out of Psalms 119:25 - soul Psalms 119:83 - like a bottle in the smoke Psalms 137:6 - let my tongue Isaiah 26:19 - Awake Isaiah 41:17 - their tongue Isaiah 52:14 - his visage Ezekiel 45:17 - he shall prepare Daniel 9:26 - Messiah Matthew 17:23 - they shall John 11:52 - not John 12:24 - if John 19:30 - It is John 19:42 - laid John 20:9 - that Acts 8:33 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My strength is dried up like a potsherd,.... The radical moisture of his body was dried up through his loss of blood and spirits, and through the violent fever upon him, brought on him by his being hurried from court to court; and which generally attends persons under a panic, in consternation and fear of danger and death, and at crucifixion; or this was occasioned by the inward sorrow and distress of his mind, which affected his body and dried his bones, as a broken spirit is said to do, Proverbs 17:22; and chiefly it was brought upon him through the sense he had the wrath of God, which like fire dried up his strength, just as a potsherd burnt in a furnace; which expresses his dolorous sufferings, which were typified by the passover lamb being roasted with fire, and the manna being baked in pans;

and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; so that he could not, or rather would not, speak; this phrase sometimes signifying silence, Job 29:10 Ezekiel 3:26. Thus Christ answered not a word to the charges of the false witnesses before the high priest, nor to the accusations of the chief priests and elders before Pilate; nor did he open his mouth, when he was led to be crucified, neither against the law and justice of God, nor against his people for whom he suffered, nor against his enemies who used him cruelly; when he was reviled he reviled not again; but rather this was occasioned by thirst, through the violent fever that was upon him; see Lamentations 4:4; Hence, when he hung upon the cross, he said, "I thirst", John 19:28;

and thou hast brought me into the dust of death; meaning either death itself, which brings to the dust, and which is signified in this psalm by going down to it, Psalms 22:29; or the grave, where the body crumbles into dust, and where it is covered with dust, and therefore is said to sleep in the dust of the earth, Daniel 12:2; and accordingly the Targum renders it here, "thou hast shut me up in the house of the grave": now Christ both died and was laid in the grave, though he did not lie there so long as to corrupt and decompose, yet he might be truly said to be laid in the dust: and this is attributed to God, to his counsel, disposal, and Providence; and even whatever was done to Christ antecedent to his death, and which led on to it, were what God's hand and counsel had determined to be done; and though it was with wicked hands the Jews took Christ and used him in the manner after related, and crucified and slew him, he was delivered to them by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God; and by these he was delivered into the hands of justice, and brought to death itself, Acts 2:23.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, - A “potsherd” is a fragment of a broken pot, or a piece of earthenware. See Isaiah 45:9, note; and Job 2:8, note. The meaning here is, that his strength was not vigorous like a green tree that was growing, and that was full of sap, but it was like a brittle piece of earthenware, so dry and fragile that it could be easily crumbled to pieces.

And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws - See the notes at Job 29:10. The meaning here is, that his mouth was dry, and he could not speak. His tongue adhered to the roof of his mouth so that he could not use it - another description of the effects of intense thirst. Compare John 19:28.

And thou hast brought me into the dust of death - Or, as we should say, “to dust” - “to the grave” - to the dust where death reigns. See the notes at Daniel 12:2. The meaning is, that he was near death; or, was just ready to die. Who can show that the Redeemer when on the cross may not in his own meditations have gone over these very expressions in the psalm as applicable to himself?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:15. My strength is dried up — All these expressions mark a most distressed and hopeless case.

Into the dust of death. — This means only that he was apparently brought nigh to the grave, and consequent corruption; this latter David saw; but Jesus Christ never saw corruption.


 
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