Revised Version 1895
Psalms 22:15
15My Strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
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 gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion. 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 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. 16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of evil-doers have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet. 17I may tell all my bones; they look and stare upon me:
Read all of Psalms 22Psalms 22:15 word by word
יָ֘בֵ֤שׁ כַּחֶ֨רֶשׂ׀ כֹּחִ֗י וּ֭לְשׁוֹנִי מֻדְבָּ֣ק מַלְקוֹחָ֑י וְֽלַעֲפַר־מָ֥וֶת תִּשְׁפְּתֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 22:15
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
- Proverbs 17:22A merry heart is a good medicine: but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
- Psalms 69:3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Job 29:10The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
- Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
- John 19:28After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst.
- Psalms 30:9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
- Psalms 104:29Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath they die, and return to their dust.
- Genesis 3:19in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Genesis 18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
- Job 7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust; and thou shall seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
- Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
- Job 34:15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
- Isaiah 53:12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Daniel 12:2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Matthew 27:50And Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded 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
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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