Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
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12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
14But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.
Cross References
Genesis 40:23Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgotten about him.
1 Samuel 20:33And Saul cast a javelin at him to strike him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
1 Samuel 23:19Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
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; he fighting daily oppresses me.
Psalms 101:5Whoso privately slanders his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that has an high look and a proud heart will not I 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 →