Psalms 31:11

Loneliness Shame The stranger and outcast

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.

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 vessel.

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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.
KJV: 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.
WEB: Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
ASV: Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.
DARBY: More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.
BLB: Among all my enemies I am an object of scorn, even to my neighbors, and a source of dread, exceedingly to those who know me; those seeing me in the street flee from me!

ÅB: For alle fiendenes skyld er jeg blitt til stor spott
for naboene mine,
og til en skrekk for dem som kjenner meg.
De som ser meg på gaten, flykter for meg.
OTB: På grunn av alle mine motstandere har jeg blitt til skam,
Særlig for mine naboer,
Og en skrekk for mine bekjente;
De som ser meg på gaten flykter fra meg.
B1930: For alle mine fienders skyld er jeg blitt til stor spott for mine naboer og til en skrekk for mine kjenninger; de som ser mig på gaten, flyr for mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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Psalms 88:8
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
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Matthew 26:56
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
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Psalms 88:18
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
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Psalms 41:8–9
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
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Psalms 69:19–20
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
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Job 19:13–14
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
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Isaiah 53:3–5
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
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