I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
Parallel translations
- WEB I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has melted within Me.
- NASB I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
- NLT My life is poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.
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Quick answer
He feels poured out like water, his bones out of joint and his heart melted like wax. His physical and emotional strength utterly fails.
Overview
The sufferer describes a body and spirit drained to the point of collapse, dissolving, dislocated, melting. The language remarkably evokes the physical agony of crucifixion, with its dislocated joints and failing heart. Christians have long seen here a detailed prophetic glimpse of Christ's bodily suffering on the cross.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 22:17I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.
- Job 30:16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
- Ps 31:10For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
- Dan 5:6his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.
- Job 23:16God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
- Josh 7:5And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
- Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
- Mark 14:33–34He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be deeply troubled and distressed.
- John 12:27Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
- Nah 2:10She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!
- Ps 68:2As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
- Matt 26:38Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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