Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

Morish

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Verse Info

Context Readings

From Suffering To Praise

14 I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me. 15 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. 16 For dogs have surrounded me; a gang of those who practice of evil has encircled me. They gouged my hands and my feet.


Cross References

John 19:28

After this, when Jesus realized that everything was now completed, he said (in order to fulfill the Scripture), "I'm thirsty."

Psalm 104:29

When you withdraw your favor, they are disappointed; Take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

Job 29:10

The voices of the commanders-in-chief were hushed, and their tongues would cling to the roofs of their mouths."

Psalm 69:21

They put poison in my food, in my thirst they forced me to drink vinegar.

Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit drains one's strength.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong; because he poured out his life to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he carried the sins of many, and made intercession for their transgressions."

Genesis 3:19

You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you're buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You're made from dust and you'll return to dust."

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, "Look, even though I am only dust and ashes, I've ventured to speak to my LORD.

Job 7:21

Why haven't you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I'm about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won't be around!"

Job 10:9

""Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust.

Job 34:15

every living thing would die all at once, and mankind would return to dust."

Psalm 30:9

"What profit is there in my death if I go down to the Pit? Can dust worship you? Can it proclaim your faithfulness?"

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.

Psalm 38:10

My heart pounds, my strength fails me, even the gleam in my eye is gone.

Psalm 69:3

I am exhausted from calling for help. My throat is parched. My eyes are strained from looking for God.

Lamentations 4:4

The nursing child's tongue cleaves to its palate from thirst. Young children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken some to life everlasting, and some to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

Matthew 27:50

Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice again and died.

1 Corinthians 15:3

For I passed on to you the most important points that I received: The Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

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