KJV King James Version
I 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.
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Psalm 22:14
I 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
WEB World English Bible
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
ASV American Standard Version
I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Surrounding context — Psalm 22
11 Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I 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.
15 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.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כַּמַּ֥יִםH4325 · ma.yimwaterנִשְׁפַּכְתִּי֮H8210 · sha.phakhto pour: pourוְהִתְפָּֽרְד֗וּH6504 · pa.radto separateכָּֽל־H3605 · kolallעַצְמ֫וֹתָ֥יH6106 · e.tsemboneהָיָ֣הH1961 · ha.yahto beלִ֭בִּיH3820 · levheartכַּדּוֹנָ֑גH1749 · do.nagwaxנָ֝מֵ֗סH4549 · ma.sasto meltבְּת֣וֹךְH8432 · ta.vekhmidstמֵעָֽי׃H4578 · me.ehbelly
Cross-references
Psalm 31:10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.Psalm 22:17I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.Job 30:16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.Daniel 5:6Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.Job 23:16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:Joshua 7:5And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.John 12:27Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.Mark 14:33-34And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;Matthew 26:38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.Nahum 2:10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.Psalm 68:2As smoke is driven away, [so] drive [them] away: as wax melteth before the fire, [so] let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
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