Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bottle » Made of animal skins
They resorted to a ruse (scheme) (trick). They acted as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, worn out, torn, and mended.
These bottles of wine, which we filled, were new and now they are cracked. Our garments and shoes have become old by reason of the very long journey.
My heart is indeed like wine that has no vent. It is like new wineskins and is ready to burst.
Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your statutes.
Neither do men put new wine in old wineskins. The skins burst and the wine is lost. They put new wine in fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
No man puts new wine into old wineskins. The skins will burst and the wine and the skins will be wasted. New wine has to be put into new wine skins.
No one puts new wine in old wine skins. The new wine will burst the old skins and spill the wine. But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins.
Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke
Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your statutes.
Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted
Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your statutes.