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15 My strength is dried up like broken pottery;
    my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth,[a]
        and you have brought me down to the dust of death.

16 For dogs have surrounded me;
    a gang of those who practice evil has encircled me.
        They gouged[b] my hands and my[c] feet.
17 I can count all my bones.
    They look at me;
        they stare at me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:15 Lit. to my jaws
  2. Psalm 22:16 So LXX Syr DSS 5/6 HevPS XHev/Se4; MT reads Like a lion
  3. Psalm 22:16 So MT; LXX lacks my

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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  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