Psalms 31:12

I am clean forgotten like the dead, am become like a ruined 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

11The scorn of all my foes, the butt of my neighbors am I, a terror to my acquaintance. At the sight of me in the street people turn quickly away.

13I hear the whispers of many – terror on every side – scheming together against me, plotting to take my life.

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Cross References

Psalms 38:12They who aim at my life lay their snares, they who seek my hurt speak of ruin, nursing treachery all the day long.

Psalms 89:52Blest be the Lord, for ever and ever. Amen and Amen.

Romans 9:21Has not the potter absolute power over their clay, so that out of the same lump they make one thing for better, and another for common, use?

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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