Psalms 31:13
For 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.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
14But I trusted in thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my God.
Cross References
Genesis 40:23Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
1 Samuel 20:33And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him. By this Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to put David to death.
1 Samuel 23:19Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the forest, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
2 Samuel 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.
Psalms 56:1Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me.
Psalms 101:5He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.
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 →