Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
14But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
Cross References
Genesis 40:23Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
1 Samuel 20:33And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to put David to death.
1 Samuel 23:19Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in the strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
2 Samuel 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Psalms 56:1Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
Psalms 101:5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy: him that hath an 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 →