Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.
New American Standard Bible
And
And You
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 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 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.
Themes
typical nature of Paschal lamb » With fire » Roasted
Prophecies respecting Christ » The intensity of his sufferings
Topics
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 22:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
From Suffering To Praise
14 As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws. 16 And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.
Cross References
John 19:28
After this, Jesus knowing that all things now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, saith, 'I thirst;'
Psalm 104:29
Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.
Job 29:10
The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.
Psalm 69:21
And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.
Proverbs 17:22
A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.
Isaiah 53:12
Therefore I give a portion to him among the many, And with the mighty he apportioneth spoil, Because that he exposed to death his soul, And with transgressors he was numbered, And he the sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors he intercedeth.
Genesis 3:19
by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answereth and saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I -- dust and ashes;
Job 7:21
Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!
Job 10:9
Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
Job 34:15
Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
Psalm 30:9
What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?
Psalm 32:3-4
When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
Psalm 38:10
My heart is panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.
Psalm 69:3
I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.
Lamentations 4:4
Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.
Daniel 12:2
And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.
Matthew 27:50
And Jesus having again cried with a great voice, yielded the spirit;
1 Corinthians 15:3
for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,