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.
Psalms 22:15 in other 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. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws. |
| DARBY | 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. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Psalms 22:15 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…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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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…
Psalms 22:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 22:15
- John 19:28
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
- Psalms 69:3
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Psalms 69:21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Isaiah 53:12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Psalms 104:29
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
- Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- Psalms 38:10
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
- Matthew 27:50
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
- 1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
- Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
- Job 29:10
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
- Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
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Context
- 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.
- Psalms 22:16
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalms 22:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Secóse como un tiesto mi vigor, y mi lengua se pegó á mi paladar; y me has puesto en el polvo de la muerte. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Je suis répandu comme de l’eau, et tous mes os se déjoignent; mon cœur est comme de la cire, il est fondu au-dedans de mes entrailles. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Meine Kraft ist vertrocknet wie ein Scherben, und meine Zunge klebt an meinem Gaumen; und in den Staub des Todes legst du mich. |