Psalms 22:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.”
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“My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 22:15 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Genesis 18:27Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
- 2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
- Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- Job 19:20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- Job 29:10The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.
- Job 30:16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
- Job 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
- Psalms 30:9“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
- Psalms 38:10My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
- Psalms 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
- Psalms 69:21They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
- Psalms 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Proverbs 17:22A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
- Isaiah 53:12Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Lamentations 4:4The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
- Daniel 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Matthew 27:50When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit.
- John 19:28After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
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