Psalm 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Cross-reference
In Psalm 119:16, the psalmist promises not to forget God's word — directly echoes the same commitment in 119:83 despite suffering.
In Psalm 119:61, the psalmist is ensnared yet does not forget God's law — same resolve as in 119:83, where he does not forget despite affliction.
In Psalm 119:176, the psalmist admits straying but still does not forget God's commandments — same commitment to not forgetting as in 119:83.
In Psalm 119:109, the psalmist declares he will not forget God's law despite risking his life — same resolve as here, even when suffering like a wineskin.
In Psalm 22:15, David's strength dries up like a potsherd — parallels the psalmist's wineskin shriveled in smoke, both expressing physical desolation.
In Psalm 102:3, the psalmist's days vanish like smoke and bones burn — mirrors the smoke-withered wineskin image, both lamenting consuming affliction.
In Psalm 102:4, the heart withers like grass — parallels the psalmist's wineskin shriveled in smoke, both depicting loss of vitality.
In Psalm 31:12, the psalmist uses broken pottery to express being forgotten — parallel to the wineskin image here, both convey desolation.
In Job 30:30, Job's skin blackens and bones burn from affliction — parallels the psalmist's imagery of being dried out like a wineskin in smoke.
Lamentations 4:8 describes faces blacker than soot and shriveled skin — similar physical decay imagery as a wineskin dried by smoke.
Lamentations 5:10 speaks of skin burning with fever from famine — akin to the wineskin's exposure to smoke, both picture affliction.