Psalms 22:15

The roof of my mouth ¹  is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. ²  You ³  set me in the dust of death. ⁴ 

Ge 3:19; Ge 18:27; Job 7:21; Job 10:9; Job 29:10; Job 34:15; Ps 30:9; Ps 32:3,4; Ps 69:3,21; Ps 104:29; Pr 17:22; Isa 53:12; La 4:4; Da 12:2; Mt 27:50; Joh 19:28; 1Co 15:3

¹ tc Heb “my strength” (כֹּחִי, kokhiy), but many prefer to emend the text to חִכִּי (khikiy, “my palate”; cf. NEB, NRSV “my mouth”) assuming that an error of transposition has occurred in the traditional Hebrew text.

² tn Cf. NEB “my jaw”; NASB, NRSV “my jaws”; NIV “the roof of my mouth.”

³ sn Here the psalmist addresses God and suggests that God is ultimately responsible for what is happening because of his failure to intervene (see vv. 1-2, 11).

⁴ sn The imperfect verbal form draws attention to the progressive nature of the action. The psalmist is in the process of dying.