Psalms 119:83

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
  • Ps 119:61 : 61 The cords of evil-doers are round me; but I have kept in mind your law.
  • Ps 119:176 : 176 I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
  • Ps 22:15 : 15 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.
  • Ps 102:3-4 : 3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire. 4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

  • Ps 102:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.

    4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • 141 I am small and of no account; but I keep your orders in mind.

  • Ps 119:80-82
    3 verses
    73%

    80 Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.

    81 <CAPH> My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.

    82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?

  • 153 <RESH> O see my trouble, and be my saviour; for I keep your law in my mind,

  • 84 How short is the life of your servant! when will you give your decision against those who are attacking me?

  • 139 My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.

  • 16 I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.

  • 8 I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely.

  • 109 My soul is ever in danger; but I still keep the memory of your law.

  • 176 I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

  • 61 The cords of evil-doers are round me; but I have kept in mind your law.

  • Ps 119:93-94
    2 verses
    69%

    93 I will ever keep your orders in mind; for in them I have life.

    94 I am yours, O be my saviour; for my desire has been for your rules.

  • 87 They had almost put an end to me on earth; but I did not give up your orders.

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15 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.

  • Ps 119:54-55
    2 verses
    68%

    54 Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

    55 I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.

  • 9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

  • 67 Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.

  • 71 It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.

  • 49 <ZAIN> Keep in mind your word to your servant, for on it has my hope been fixed.

  • 123 My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

  • 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

  • 117 Let me not be moved, and I will be safe, and ever take delight in your rules.

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    67%

    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • 40 See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.

  • 11 When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

  • 131 My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.

  • 19 My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.

  • 168 I have been ruled by your orders; for all my ways are before you.

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    157 Great is the number of those who are against me; but I have not been turned away from your unchanging word.

    158 I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.

  • 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 52 I have kept the memory of your decisions from times past, O Lord; and they have been my comfort.

  • 20 My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

  • 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

  • 3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

  • 143 Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.

  • 5 If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!

  • 13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • 7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • 136 Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.

  • 4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.