New International Version
Psalms 31:12
12I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I am ignored as if I were dead, as if I were a broken pot.
Context of Psalms 31:12
10My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak. 11Because of all my enemies, I am the utter contempt of my neighbors and an object of dread to my closest friends— those who see me on the street flee from me. I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery. 13For I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side!” They conspire against me and plot 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 who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength.
- Isaiah 38:11I said, “I will not again see the Lord himself in the land of the living; no longer will I look on my fellow man, or be with those who now dwell in this world.
- Psalms 2:9You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”
- Psalms 119:83Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees.
- Isaiah 30:14It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.”
- Romans 9:21Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
- Revelation 2:27that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I 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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