Psalms 22:15

Psalms 22:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
• English Standard Version (ESV)my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
• New King James Version (NKJV)My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death.

Context of Psalms 22:15

13They open their mouths against me — lions, mauling and roaring. 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed; my heart is like wax, melting within me. 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. 16For dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has closed in on me; they pierced my hands and my feet. 17I can count all my bones; people look and stare at me.

Psalms 22:15 word by word

יָ֘בֵ֤שׁ כַּחֶ֨רֶשׂ׀ כֹּחִ֗י וּ֭לְשׁוֹנִי מֻדְבָּ֣ק מַלְקוֹחָ֑י וְֽלַעֲפַר־מָ֥וֶת תִּשְׁפְּתֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• My strengthכֹּחַkôach kôach · strengthH3581
• is dried upיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · to witherH3001
• like a potsherdחֶ֫רֶשׂchereώ · earthenwareH2789
• and my tongueלָשׁוֹןlâshôn lâshôn leshônâh · tongueH3956
• cleavethדָּבַקdâbaq · to cleaveH1692
• to my jawsמַלְקוֹחַmalqôach · jawH4455
• and thou hast broughtשָׁפַתshâphath · to setH8239
• me into the dustעָפָר‛âphâr · dustH6083
• of deathמָ֫וֶתmâveth · deathH4194

Cross-references for Psalms 22:15

• Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
• Proverbs 17:22A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
• Psalms 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Job 29:10The noblemen’s voices were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
• Lamentations 4:4The nursing baby’s tongue clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst. Infants beg for food, but no one gives them any.
• John 19:28After this, when Jesus knew that everything was now finished that the Scripture might be fulfilled, he said, “I’m thirsty.”
• Psalms 30:9“What gain is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your truth?
• Psalms 104:29When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.
• Genesis 3:19You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”
• Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to my lord — even though I am dust and ashes —
• Job 7:21Why not forgive my sin and pardon my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the grave. You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.
• Job 10:9Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust?
• Job 34:15every living thing would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
• Isaiah 53:12Therefore I will give him the many as a portion, and he will receive the mighty as spoil, because he willingly submitted to death, and was counted among the rebels; yet he bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels.
• Daniel 12:2Many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, and some to disgrace and eternal contempt.
• Matthew 27:50But Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit.

Commentaries on Psalms 22:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15My strength is dried up - All these expressions mark a most distressed and hopeless case. Into the dust of death - This means only that he was apparently brought nigh to the grave, and consequent corruption, this latter David saw; but Jesus Christ never saw corruption.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, - A “potsherd” is a fragment of a broken pot, or a piece of earthenware. See Isaiah 45:9, note; and Job 2:8, note. The meaning here is, that his strength was not vigorous like a green tree that was growing, and that was full of sap, but it was like a brittle piece of earthenware, so dry and fragile that it could be easily crumbled to pieces. And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws - See the notes at Job 29:10. The…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-21Verses 11-21 In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very manner of Christ's death is described, though not in use among the Jews. They pierced his hands and his feet, which were nailed to the accursed tree, and his whole body was left so to hang as to suffer the most severe pain and torture. His natural force failed, being wasted by the fire of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15Facing adversity is as terrible as dying of thirst (see Psalm 137:6). Jesus might have thought of this verse when he said, “I am thirsty” (John 19:28).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1514-15. Utter exhaustion and hopeless weakness, in these circumstances of pressing danger, are set forth by the most expressive figures; the solidity of the body is destroyed, and it becomes like water; the bones are parted; the heart, the very seat of vitality, melts like wax; all the juices of the system are dried up; the tongue can no longer perform its office, but lies parched and stiffened (compare Ge 49:4; 2Sa 14:14; Psa 58:8). In this, God is…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Psalms 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
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• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
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• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
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