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.
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Gill's Exposition
My strength is dried up like a potsherd,.... The radical moisture of his body was dried up through his loss of blood and spirits, and through the violent fever upon him, brought on him by his being…
Barnes' Notes
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, - A “potsherd” is a fragment of a broken pot, or a piece of earthenware. See Isa 45:9, note; and Job 2:8, note. The meaning here is, that his strength was not…
In these verses we have Christ suffering and Christ praying, by which we are directed to look for crosses and to look up to God under them.
I. Here is Christ suffering. David indeed was often in…
Cambridge Bible
The vital sap and moisture of the body are dried up. Cp. Psa 32:4. Possibly for my strengthwe should read my palate. Cp. Psa 69:3.
thou hast brought me Thou art laying me. Even in this persecution he…
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