15 My strength is dried up like baked clay;(A)
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.(B)
You put me into the dust of death.(C)
16 For dogs have surrounded me;(D)
a gang of evildoers has closed in on me;
they pierced[a] my hands and my feet.(E)
17 I can count all my bones;
people[b] look and stare at me.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:16 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read me; like a lion
  2. Psalm 22:17 Lit they

15 My mouth[a] is dried up like a potsherd,(A)
    and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;(B)
    you lay me in the dust(C) of death.

16 Dogs(D) surround me,
    a pack of villains encircles me;
    they pierce[b](E) my hands and my feet.
17 All my bones are on display;
    people stare(F) and gloat over me.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:15 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text strength
  2. Psalm 22:16 Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text me, / like a lion