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Psalms 22:15
Psalms 22:15 is verse 15 of Psalms chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
MT; or My mouth, a possible reading of the original Hebrew text
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.
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.
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Psalms 22:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
15 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.
16 For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
17 I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
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.
Psalms 69:21They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
Job 29:10The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.
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.
John 19:28After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
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 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
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—
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 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
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.
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.
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,