Psalm 22:15 “My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the r…”

Psalm 22:15

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

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.

Young's Literal Translation

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

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.

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Cross references

“strength”

Proverbs 17:22 Psalm 32:3 Psalm 32:4

Proverbs 17:22 · BSB

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Psalm 32:3 · BSB

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Psalm 32:4 · BSB

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

“tongue”

John 19:28 Psalm 69:3 Psalm 69:21 Job 29:10 Lamentations 4:4

John 19:28 · BSB

After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

Psalm 69:3 · BSB

I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Psalm 69:21 · BSB

They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

Job 29:10 · BSB

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

Lamentations 4:4 · BSB

The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

“into the”

Isaiah 53:12 Psalm 104:29 Matthew 27:50 1 Corinthians 15:3 Psalm 30:9 Genesis 3:19

Isaiah 53:12 · BSB

Therefore 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 a…

Psalm 104:29 · BSB

When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

Matthew 27:50 · BSB

When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:3 · BSB

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Psalm 30:9 · BSB

“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?

Genesis 3:19 · BSB

By 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.”

Also

Psalm 38:10

Psalm 38:10 · BSB

My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

16For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

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