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Psalms 31:12
12Because of all my adversaries I am the contempt of my neighbors and a dread to my acquaintances. Seeing me on the street, they flee from me.
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
10Be gracious to me, Adonai, for I am in distress. My eyes waste away with grief, my soul and my body as well. 11For my life is consumed in sorrow and my years in sighing. My strength fails because of my anguish and my bones waste away. Because of all my adversaries I am the contempt of my neighbors and a dread to my acquaintances. Seeing me on the street, they flee from me. 13I am as forgotten as a dead man. I have become like a broken vessel. 14For I have heard the whispering of many. There is terror on every side as they conspire against me and plot to take my life.
Read all of Psalms 31Psalms 31:12 word by word
נִ֭שְׁכַּחְתִּי כְּמֵ֣ת מִלֵּ֑ב הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כִּכְלִ֥י אֹבֵֽד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 31:12
- Psalms 88:4For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
- Isaiah 38:11I said: “I will not see Adonai, Adonai, in the land of the living. I will look on humanity no longer among the inhabitants of the world.
- Psalms 2:9You shall break the nations with an iron scepter. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s jar.”
- Psalms 119:83Though I became like a wineskin dried in smoke, I do not forget Your decrees.
- Isaiah 30:14Its collapse is like smashing a clay jar, so ruthlessly shattered that a shard will not be found among the pieces to take fire from the hearth or scoop water from the cistern.”
- Romans 9:21Does the potter have no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for common use?
- Revelation 2:27and he shall rule them with an iron rod, as when clay pots are broken into pieces.’
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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