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For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don`t forget your statutes.
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A Portrait of Suffering
Commentators explain that wineskins, made of animal hide, would become black, shriveled, cracked, and useless when hung for a long time in a smoky tent. The psalmist uses this powerful image to describe his own condition, feeling worn out, disfigured, and drained by profound and prolonged suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke - Bottles in the East were commonly made of skins. See the notes on Matthew 9:17. Such “…
19th Century
Anglican
A bottle in the smoke. —The insertion of yet by our translators shows that they understood this as a figure of abject mis…
Baptist
For I have become like a bottle in the smoke; yet I do not forget your statutes.
I feel dried up, smeared and soiled as with soot. …
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16th Century
Protestant
For I have been as a bottle in the smoke. The particle כי, ki, translated for, might also, appropriately, be resolved in…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke Like a bottle made of the skins of beasts, as was usual in those times an…
The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his enemies, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed from looking out for this …
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