Psalms 22:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • John 19:28 : 28 After this, being conscious that all things had now been done so that the Writings might come true, Jesus said, Give me water.
  • Ps 104:29 : 29 If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
  • Prov 17:22 : 22 A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
  • Isa 53:12 : 12 For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.
  • Job 29:10 : 10 The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.
  • Job 34:15 : 15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
  • Ps 38:10 : 10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
  • 1 Cor 15:3 : 3 For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;
  • Lam 4:4 : 4 The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.
  • Matt 27:50 : 50 And Jesus gave another loud cry, and gave up his spirit.

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  • Ps 22:13-14
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    13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

    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.

  • Ps 102:3-5
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    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.

  • Ps 22:16-17
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    16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

    17 I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

  • Job 30:16-19
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    16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

    17 The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

    18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

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

  • 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.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    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.

    14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • 4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

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

  • 20 My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

  • 16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

  • Job 16:12-13
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    12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

    13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • 10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • 11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • 19 Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

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

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

  • 18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

  • Job 16:7-8
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    7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

    8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

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

  • 7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • 23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

  • Job 16:15-16
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    15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

    16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

  • 4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

  • 6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

  • Ps 32:3-4
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    3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

    4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

  • 5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

  • 25 <DALETH> My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.

  • 4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • 24 My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

  • 13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

  • 20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • 8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

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

  • 21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

  • 53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.