¹⁵ Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

²⁸ After this, Jesus knowing that all things now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, saith, `I thirst;'

²⁹ Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

¹² Therefore I give a portion to him among the many, And with the mighty he apportioneth spoil, Because that he exposed to death his soul, And with transgressors he was numbered, And he the sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors he intercedeth.

²² A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.

²¹ And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.

¹⁰ The voice of leaders hath been hidden, And their tongue to the palate hath cleaved.

³ for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

⁵⁰ And Jesus having again cried with a great voice, yielded the spirit;

² `And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.

⁴ Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.

³ I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

¹⁰ My heart `is' panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.

³ When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

⁴ When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

⁹ `What gain `is' in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

¹⁵ Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.

⁹ Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.

²¹ Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

²⁷ And Abraham answereth and saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I -- dust and ashes;

¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou `art', and unto dust thou turnest back.'