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Psalms 31:12
12I am forgotten: gone from memory like a dead person — like broken pottery.
Psalms 31:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
- New International Version (NIV)I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
Context of Psalms 31:12
10Indeed, my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my strength has failed because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. 11I am ridiculed by all my adversaries and even by my neighbors. I am dreaded by my acquaintances; those who see me in the street run from me. I am forgotten: gone from memory like a dead person — like broken pottery. 13I have heard the gossip of many; terror is on every side. When they conspired against me, they plotted to take my life. 14But I trust in you, Lord; I say, “You are my God.”
Read all of Psalms 31Psalms 31:12 word by word
נִ֭שְׁכַּחְתִּי כְּמֵ֣ת מִלֵּ֑ב הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כִּכְלִ֥י אֹבֵֽד׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 31:12
- Psalms 88:4I am counted among those going down to the Pit. I am like a man without strength,
- Isaiah 38:11I said: I will never see the Lord, the Lord in the land of the living; I will not look on humanity any longer with the inhabitants of what is passing away.
- Psalms 2:9You will break them with an iron scepter; you will shatter them like pottery.”
- Psalms 119:83Though I have become like a wineskin dried by smoke, I do not forget your statutes.
- Isaiah 30:14Its collapse will be like the shattering of a potter’s jar, crushed to pieces, so that not even a fragment of pottery will be found among its shattered remains — no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth or scoop water from a cistern.”
- Romans 9:21Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?
- Revelation 2:27and he will rule them with an iron scepter; he will shatter them like pottery —
Commentaries on Psalms 31:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12I am forgotten as a dead man - I am considered as a person adjudged to death. I am like a broken vessel-like a thing totally useless.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind - Like the man who is dead, and who has passed away from the recollection of mankind. Compare Psalm 88:4-5. The Hebrew is, “as a dead man from the heart;” that is, from the memory or recollection of men, so as to be no more remembered; no more regarded. The expression is nearly the same in meaning as our common English proverb: “out of sight, out of mind.” The allusion is to the fact that a man who is dead is soon…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-18Verses 9-18 David's troubles made him a man of sorrows. Herein he was a type of Christ, who was acquainted with grief. David acknowledged that his afflictions were merited by his own sins, but Christ suffered for ours. David's friends durst not give him any assistance. Let us not think it strange if thus deserted, but make sure of a Friend in heaven who will not fail. God will be sure to order and dispose all for the best, to all those who commit their…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-13In this prayer for mercy, the psalmist places a description of his intense suffering and the pain of rejection between two statements of trust in the Lord (Psalm 31:6, 14).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. he is forgotten as one dead, and contemned as a useless broken vessel.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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