Psalms 22 · Verse 14

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.
Psalms 22:14, King James Version

Psalms 22:14 in other translations

BSBI am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
WEBI am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.
ASVI am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
YLTAs 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.
DARBYI 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.
BBEI 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.
WebsterI 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.

What does Psalms 22:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 22:14-15
14-15. Utter exhaustion and hopeless weakness, in these circumstances of pressing danger, are set forth by the most expressive figures; the solidity of the body is destroyed, and it becomes like water; the bones are parted; the heart, the very seat of vitality, melts like wax; all the juices of the system are dried up; the tongue can no longer perform its office, but lies parched and stiffened (compare Ge 49:4; 2Sa 14:14; Psa 58:8). In this, God is regarded as the ultimate source, and men as the instruments.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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 descriptivr of a person in the deepest distress; whose strength, courage, hope, and expectation of succor 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 22:11-21

In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very manner of Christ's death is described, though not in use among the Jews. They pierced his hands and his feet, which were nailed to the accursed tree, and his whole body was left so to hang as to suffer the most severe pain and torture. His natural force failed, being…

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Psalms 22:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כַּמַּ֥יִםka.Ma.yimlike <the> waterH4325
נִשְׁפַּכְתִּי֮nish.pakh.TiI have been poured outH8210
וְהִתְפָּֽרְד֗וּve.hit.pa.re.Duand they have become dislocatedH6504
כָּֽל\־kal-allH3605
עַצְמ֫וֹתָ֥יatz.Mo.Taibones myH6106
הָיָ֣הha.Yahit has becomeH1961
לִ֭בִּיLi.biheart myH3820
כַּדּוֹנָ֑גka.do.Naglike <the> waxH1749
נָ֝מֵ֗סna.Mesit has meltedH4549
בְּת֣וֹךְbe.Tokhin [the] midst ofH8432
מֵעָֽי\׃me.'Aiinward parts myH4578

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 22:14

  • Psalms 31:10

    For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Job 30:16

    And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • Psalms 22:17

    I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

  • Daniel 5:6

    Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

  • Job 23:16

    For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

  • Joshua 7:5

    And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

  • Mark 14:33-34

    And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.

  • John 12:27

    Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.

  • Luke 22:44

    And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

  • Matthew 26:38

    Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

  • Nahum 2:10

    She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

  • Psalms 68:2

    As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I am.
Jos 7:5; Mt 26:38; Lu 22:44; Joh 12:27
all.
17; Da 5:6
out of joint. or, sundered. heart.
68:2; Jos 7:5; Job 23:16; Mr 14:33,34

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Context

  • Psalms 22:13

    They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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Psalms 22:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Heme escurrido como aguas, y todos mis huesos se descoyuntaron: mi corazón fué como cera, desliéndose en medio de mis entrañas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ils ouvrent leur gueule contre moi, comme un lion déchirant et rugissant.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wie Wasser bin ich hingeschüttet, und alle meine Gebeine haben sich zertrennt; wie Wachs ist geworden mein Herz, es ist zerschmolzen inmitten meiner Eingeweide.