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Psalm 119:83

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

81My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
84How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
85The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
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Notice

A wineskin exposed to smoke pictures a worn condition, yet the speaker’s memory of God’s statutes remains intact while comfort and relief are still awaited.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Mark 2:22No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new …Both passages mention wineskins, though Mark describes skins bursting with new wine and the psalm pictures a person exposed to hardship.
Luke 5:37No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed.Wineskins connect these passages, though Luke concerns old skins destroyed by new wine, while the psalm uses smoke to picture distress.
Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.Job describes blackened skin and burning bones; the psalm uses a smoke-exposed wineskin to express a worn condition.
Psalm 31:12I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.Both speakers compare themselves to damaged household objects: a wineskin in smoke and broken pottery.
Psalm 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMELBoth verses affirm remembrance of God’s instruction, with delight expressed in one and distress in the other.
Psalm 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.Both speakers affirm that they remember God’s commands while comparing themselves to something vulnerable: a smoke-exposed wineskin and a lost sheep.
Psalm 102:3–4For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.Smoke appears in both laments, describing the speaker’s worn condition in Psalm 119 and days consumed in Psalm 102.
Lamentations 4:8Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.Lamentations describes darkened, withered skin; the psalm’s smoke-exposed wineskin offers a related image of suffering marked on an outer covering.
Lamentations 5:10Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.Both passages express suffering through heat-related imagery: a wineskin in smoke and skin blackened like an oven.
Joshua 9:4they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wineskins,Wineskins appear in both texts, as a picture of distress in the psalm and worn objects used in Joshua’s account of deception.
Joel 2:6At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.The shared thread is limited to anguish expressed through appearance: pale faces in Joel and a smoke-exposed wineskin in the psalm.
Where this verse fits

Burnout. waiting. feeling distant from God.

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One step

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Read Psalm 119:83 aloud before bed

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Encouragement

Feeling worn does not mean you have forgotten God’s word. The speaker describes the damage without hiding it; remembrance of God’s statutes continues while the suffering remains unresolved.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).