Psalm 119:83 {118:83}
Good News Translation
I am as useless as a discarded wineskin; yet I have not forgotten your commands.

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

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

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

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

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

like a bottle in the smoke.

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

Psalm 102:3,4 For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. . . .

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

yet do I

Psalm 119:16,61,176 I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
82My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me? 83For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.84How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?…
Cross References
Job 30:30
My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

Psalm 18:22
For all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have not put away from me.

Psalm 44:17
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.

Psalm 119:61
The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

Psalm 119:93
Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast given me life.

Psalm 119:82
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