My strength. — The conjecture, “my palate,” instead of “my strength,” improves the parallelism. Others, but not so happily, “my moisture.”
The dust of death. — Comp. Shakespeare’s “Macbeth:”
“The way to dusty death.”
Related Commentaries of Psalms 22:15
Psalms 22:15
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.