Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 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. 16 For dogs surrounded me: the assembly of those being evil moved round about me: they digged my hands and my feet


Cross References

John 19:28

After this, Jesus knowing that all things were already completed, that the writing might be finished, says, I thirst.

Psalm 104:29

Thou wilt hide thy face, they will tremble: thou wilt take away their spirit, they shall expire and turn back to dust

Job 29:10

The voice the leaders hid, and their tongue was joined to their palate.

Psalm 69:21

And they will give my food poison, and for my thirst they will give me vinegar to drink.

Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart shall make good healing: and a dejected spirit shall dry up the bones.

Isaiah 53:12

For this I will divide to him with many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; for which his soul was poured out to death, and he was numbered with transgressors; and he lifted up the sin of many, and he will supplicate for transgressors.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham will answer and say, Behold now, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, and I dust and ashes.

Job 7:21

And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not

Job 10:9

Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust.

Job 34:15

All flesh shall expire together, and man shall turn back to dust

Psalm 30:9

What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth?

Psalm 32:3-4

If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.

Psalm 38:10

O Jehovah, before thee all my desire, and my sighing was not hid from thee.

Psalm 69:3

I was wearied in my calling, my throat was dried up: mine eyes failed waiting for my God.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the suckling adhered to his palate in thirst: the young children asked for bread, none breaking bread to them.

Daniel 12:2

And many sleeping in the earth of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, and these to reproach and eternal abhorrence.

Matthew 27:50

And Jesus, again having cried with a great voice, let go the spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:3

For I delivered to you among the first, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the writings;

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