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Psalm 22:16
New Catholic Bible

16 My mouth is as dry as clayware,
    and my tongue sticks to my jaw;[a]
    you have laid me down in the dust of death.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:16 My mouth . . . jaw: see Jn 19:28 (“I thirst”). The dust of death: the netherworld, domain of the dead; the author is using the language of his day, as in Mesopotamian descriptions of the netherworld (see Job 7:9, 21).
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