Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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.

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 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 poured out like water, and all My bones are spread apart; My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of My bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws; 16 and You have brought Me into the dust of death. For dogs have circled around Me; the band of spoilers have hemmed Me in, piercers of My hands and My feet.


Cross References

John 19:28

After this, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, I thirst.

Psalm 104:29

You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Job 29:10

The noble's voice was subdued, and their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth.

Psalm 69:21

They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will divide to Him with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul to death; and He was counted among the transgressors; and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to Jehovah, who am but dust and ashes.

Job 7:21

And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust, and You shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech You, that You have formed me as the clay; and will You bring me into the dust again?

Job 34:15

all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.

Psalm 30:9

What profit is in my blood, in going down to the pit? Shall the dust praise You? Shall it tell of Your truth?

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.

Psalm 38:10

My heart pants; my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Lamentations 4:4

The suckling's tongue cleaves to his palate in thirst; the young children ask bread; there is no breaking to them.

Daniel 12:2

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Matthew 27:50

And crying again with a loud voice, Jesus released His spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:3

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,

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