Psalm 119:83
New International Version
Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees.

New Living Translation
I am shriveled like a wineskin in the smoke, but I have not forgotten to obey your decrees.

English Standard Version
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.

Berean Standard Bible
Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

King James Bible
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

New King James Version
For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, Yet I do not forget Your statutes.

New American Standard Bible
Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

NASB 1995
Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

NASB 1977
Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget Thy statutes.

Legacy Standard Bible
For I am like a wineskin in the smoke, But I do not forget Your statutes.

Amplified Bible
For I have become like a wineskin [blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs], Yet I do not forget Your statutes.

Christian Standard Bible
Though I have become like a wineskin dried by smoke, I do not forget your statutes.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Though I have become like a wineskin dried by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

American Standard Version
For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because I have been like a wine skin in a frost, and your commandments I have not forgotten.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For I am become as a bottle in the frost: yet I have not forgotten thine ordinances.

Contemporary English Version
My life is wasting away like a dried-up wineskin, but I have not forgotten your teachings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

English Revised Version
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Although I have become like a shriveled and dried out wineskin, I have not forgotten your laws.

Good News Translation
I am as useless as a discarded wineskin; yet I have not forgotten your commands.

International Standard Version
Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget Thy statutes.

Literal Standard Version
For I have been as a bottle in smoke, | I have not forgotten Your statutes.

Majority Standard Bible
Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

New American Bible
I am like a wineskin shriveled by smoke, but I have not forgotten your statutes.

NET Bible
For I am like a wineskin dried up in smoke. I do not forget your statutes.

New Revised Standard Version
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.

New Heart English Bible
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I do not forget your statutes.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet I do not forget thy statutes.

World English Bible
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

Young's Literal Translation
For I have been as a bottle in smoke, Thy statutes I have not forgotten.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
82My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?” 83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes. 84How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?…

Cross References
Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

Psalm 18:22
For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.

Psalm 44:17
All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

Psalm 119:61
Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.

Psalm 119:93
I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.


Treasury of Scripture

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.

like a bottle in the smoke.

Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Psalm 102:3,4
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth…

Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

yet do I

Psalm 119:16,61,176
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word…

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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














(83) A bottle in the smoke.--The insertion of yet by our translators shows that they understood this as a figure of abject misery. The wine-skin would, of course, shrivel, if hung above a fire, and would afford an apt image of the effect of trouble on an individual or community. "As wine-skin in the smoke my heart is sere and dried." Some think that as a bottle hung up anywhere in an ancient house would be in the smoke, nothing more is implied than its being set aside; but this is too weak.

We find in the ancient poets allusion to the custom of mellowing wine by heat:

"Prodit fumoso condita vina cado."--OVID: Fast. v. 517.

(Comp. Hor. Ode iii. 8, 9, 10). And so some understand the image here of the good results of the discipline of suffering. The LXX. and Vulg., instead of smoke, have "hoar-frost." The Hebrew word has this meaning in Psalm 148:8, but in the only other place where it occurs (Genesis 19:28) it is smoke. The possibility of rendering hoar-frost here suggests another explanation. The word nod (bottle) may be used of a cloud, and as the psalmist has just spoken of his eyes failing, we may have here only another expression for weeping.

Verse 83. - For I am become like a bottle in the smoke. Keble's paraphrase brings out the true sense -

"As wine-skin in the smoke,
My heart is sere and dried."
Wine-skins were smoked to toughen and harden them. Yet do I not forget thy statutes. The severity of the discipline does not alienate me from thee, or cause me to depart from thy Law (comp. vers. 23, 51, 161).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Though
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I am
הָ֭יִיתִי (hā·yî·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

like a wineskin
כְּנֹ֣אד (kə·nōḏ)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4997: A skin bottle, skin

dried by smoke,
בְּקִיט֑וֹר (bə·qî·ṭō·wr)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7008: A fume, cloud

I do not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

forget
שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃ (šā·ḵā·ḥə·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

Your statutes.
חֻ֝קֶּ֗יךָ (ḥuq·qe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2706: Something prescribed or owed, a statute


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