English Standard Version
Psalms 31:12
12I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I am ignored as if I were dead, as if I were a broken pot.
Context of Psalms 31:12
10For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. 11Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel. 13For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life. 14But I trust in you, O 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 who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,
- Isaiah 38:11I said, I shall not see the Lord, the Lord in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
- Psalms 2:9You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
- Psalms 119:83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
- Isaiah 30:14and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
- Romans 9:21Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
- Revelation 2:27and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.
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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