Psalms 31:13
For I have heard an evil account of many, || Fear [is] all around. In their being united against me, || They have devised to take my life,
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12I have been forgotten as dead, out of mind, || I have been as a perishing vessel.
14And I have trusted on You, || O YHWH, I have said, “You [are] my God.”
Cross References
Genesis 40:23and the chief of the butlers has not remembered Joseph, but forgets him.
1 Samuel 20:33And Saul casts the javelin at him to strike him, and Jonathan knows that it has been determined by his father to put David to death.
1 Samuel 23:19And the Ziphites go up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is David not hiding himself with us in fortresses, in the forest, in the height of Hachilah, which [is] on the south of the desolate place?
2 Samuel 17:1And Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David tonight,
Psalms 56:1TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “A SILENT DOVE FAR OFF.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, IN THE PHILISTINES’ TAKING HOLD OF HIM IN GATH. Favor me, O God, for man swallowed me up, || All the day fighting he oppresses me,
Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, || Him I cut off, || The high of eyes and proud of heart, || Him I do 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 →