Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many terror on every side when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
14But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.
Cross References
Genesis 40:23But the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph, and forgot him.
1 Samuel 20:33Then Saul cast the spear at him to smite him; and Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to put David to death.
1 Samuel 23:19And the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the waste?
2 Samuel 17:1And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David to-night;
Psalms 56:1{To the chief Musician. On Jonathelem-rechokim. Of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.} Be gracious unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long fighting he oppresseth me.
Psalms 101:5Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
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 →