Psalms 31:12
\31:11\Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
In Context
13\31:12\I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
Cross References
Job 19:14My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
Psalms 38:12\38:11\My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
Psalms 89:52\89:51\The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
Isaiah 30:14And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.
Romans 9:21Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?
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 →