Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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.

New American Standard Bible

My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
And You lay me in the dust of death.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

My strength is dried up like baked clay;
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You put me into the dust of death.

International Standard Version

My strength is dried up like broken pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth, and you have brought me down to the dust of death.

A Conservative Version

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery;
And my [dry] tongue clings to my jaws;
And You have laid me in the dust of death.

Darby Translation

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.

Julia Smith Translation

My strength was dried up as the potsherd, and my tongue cleaving to my jaws; and thou wilt set me for the dust of death.

King James 2000

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me to the dust of death.

Lexham Expanded Bible

My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.

Modern King James verseion

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my gums, and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death.

NET Bible

The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

New Heart English Bible

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.

The Emphasized Bible

Dried as a potsherd, is my strength, And, my tongue, is made to cleave to my gums, And, in the dust of death, wilt thou lay me.

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.

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

Morish

Watsons

Verse Info

Context Readings

From Suffering To Praise

14 I 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. 15 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. 16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.


Cross References

John 19:28

After this, being conscious that all things had now been done so that the Writings might come true, Jesus said, Give me water.

Psalm 104:29

If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

Job 29:10

The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

Proverbs 17:22

A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

Isaiah 53:12

For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.

Genesis 3:19

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

Job 7:21

And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

Job 10:9

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Job 34:15

All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

Psalm 69:3

I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

Daniel 12:2

And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.

Matthew 27:50

And Jesus gave another loud cry, and gave up his spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:3

For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;

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