Psalms 31:12

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbours, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

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Cross References

Job 19:14My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

Psalms 38:12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Psalms 89:52Blessed be the LORD forever more. Amen, and Amen.

Isaiah 30:14He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found amongst the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

Romans 9:21Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honour, and another for dishonour?

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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