Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bottle » Made of animal skins
they worked with prudence and went and made as if they had been ambassadors and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old and rent and bound up,
These bottles of wine, we also filled new, and, behold, they are rent, and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
Behold, my belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst forth like spirits.
For I am become like a wine skin in the smoke; yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.
Neither do they put new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wineskins break, and the wine runs out, and the wineskins perish; but they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved together.
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are lost; but new wine must be poured into new wineskins.
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled and the wineskins shall perish. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke
For I am become like a wine skin in the smoke; yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.
Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted
For I am become like a wine skin in the smoke; yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.