Psalms 31:12

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

In Context

11I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yea, to my neighbors exceedingly, and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from me.

13For I have heard the slander of many. Fear [was] on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.

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Cross References

Job 19:14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

Psalms 38:12Those also who seek after my life lay snares [for me]. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

Psalms 89:52Blessed be LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

Isaiah 30:14And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a shard with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cis

Romans 9:21Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem?

Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:10-19

Sorrowful Complaints; Humble and Believing Prayer. 9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord , for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken… Read the whole commentary →

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