Psalms 31:12

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

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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 the scorn of my neighbors, And the terror of my acquaintance; They who see me abroad flee from me.

13I hear the slander of many; fear is on every side; For they take counsel together against me; They devise to take away my life.

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Cross References

Job 19:14My kinsfolk have forsaken me, And my bosom friends have forgotten me.

Psalms 38:12While they who seek my life lay snares for me; They who seek my hurt threaten destruction, And meditate deceit all the day long.

Psalms 89:52[Praised be Jehovah for ever! Amen, yea, amen!]

Isaiah 30:14It is broken like a potter's vessel, Which is dashed in pieces and not spared, So that among its fragments not a sherd is found to take up fire from the hearth, Or to dip water from the cistern.

Romans 9:21Hath not the potter a right out of the same lump of clay to make one vessel for an honorable use, and another for a dishonorable?

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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