Psalms 31:12
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.
11 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.
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.
14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
- KJV
- I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
- WEB
- I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
- ASV
- I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
- DARBY
- I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
- BLB
- I have been forgotten like a dead man from the heart; I am perishing like a vessel.
- ÅB
- Jeg er glemt, ute av hjertet som en død;
jeg er blitt som et ødelagt kar. - OTB
- Jeg er glemt som en død, ute av sinn;
Jeg er som et knust kar. - B1930
- Jeg er glemt og ute av hjertet som en død, jeg er blitt som et ødelagt kar.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 88:4–5
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Read in contextPsalms 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Read in contextRomans 9:21–22
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Read in contextIsaiah 30:14
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
Read in contextPsalms 2:9
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:11–12
I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Read in contextRevelation 2:27
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
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