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Psalms 119:83

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

KJV

For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.

ASV

כִּֽי הָ֭יִיתִי כְּ/נֹ֣אד בְּ/קִיט֑וֹר חֻ֝קֶּ֗י/ךָ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי

Hebrew

For I have been as a bottle in smoke, Thy statutes I have not forgotten.

YLT

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
ךָ
k
noun · 126×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נֹ֣אד
n'd
noun · 6×
קִיט֑וֹר
qytvr
noun · 4×
שָׁכָֽחְתִּי
shkchty
verb · 102×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Job 30:30 — My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
  • Job 30:30 — My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
  • Lam 4:8 — Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
  • Lam 5:10 — Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
  • Luke 5:37 — And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
  • Mark 2:22 — And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
  • Ps 31:12 — I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
  • Ps 102:3 — For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
  • Ps 119:16 — I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
  • Ps 119:16 — I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
  • Ps 119:61 — The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
  • Ps 119:176 — I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.