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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.

KJV

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.

ASV

כַּ/מַּ֥יִם נִשְׁפַּכְתִּי֮ וְ/הִתְפָּֽרְד֗וּ כָּֽל עַצְמ֫וֹתָ֥/י הָיָ֣ה לִ֭בִּ/י כַּ/דּוֹנָ֑ג נָ֝מֵ֗ס בְּ/ת֣וֹךְ מֵעָֽ/י

Hebrew

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

YLT

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.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

דּוֹנַג֙
dvng
noun · 4×
הִמֵּ֣ס
hms
verb · 21×
י
y
noun · 591×
י
y
noun · 32×
י
y
noun · 126×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ
ytprdv
verb · 26×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
שְׁפָךְ
shpk
verb · 115×
ת֣וֹךְ
tvk
noun · 416×

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 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;
  • Gen 3:19 — In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
  • Isa 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
  • Isa 41:17 — When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
  • Isa 52:14 — As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
  • Isa 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
  • John 19:28 — After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
  • John 19:28 — After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
  • John 19:30 — When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
  • John 20:9 — For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
  • Lam 4:4 — The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
  • Prov 17:22 — A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
  • Ps 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
  • Ps 32:4 — For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 38:10 — My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
  • Ps 69:3 — I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
  • Ps 69:21 — They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
  • Ps 104:29 — Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
  • Ps 119:25 — My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
  • Ps 137:6 — If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.