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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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The Agony of the Cross
Commentators unanimously see this verse as a vivid, prophetic description of Jesus' physical suffering during crucifixion. The imagery of being 'dried up like a potsherd' and a tongue sticking to the jaws points to the extreme fever and dehydration Jesus endured, culminating in His cry, 'I thirst' (John 19:28). The phrase 'dust of death' signifies being at the very edge of life.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, - A “potsherd” is a fragment of a broken pot, or a piece of earthenware. See Isaiah 45:9, …
19th Century
Anglican
My strength. —The conjecture, “my palate,” instead of “my strength,” improves the parallelism. Others, though less aptly, “my mois…
Baptist
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;
Such was the intensity of his anguish that the fever wi…
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16th Century
Protestant
My strength is dried up. He means the vigor that is imparted to us by what physicians call the essential bodily moisture. What he adds in …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My strength is dried up like a potsherd The radical moisture of his body was dried up through his loss of blood and …
In these verses, we see Christ suffering and Christ praying, which directs us to expect suffering and to look up to God amidst it. The specific man…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the previous psalms, the sufferings which David endured from his son and from Saul seemed to be addressed. Now here, in the third set …
