Psalm 31:12 “I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel…”

Psalm 31:12

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

World English Bible

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

American Standard Version

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

Geneva Bible 1599

I am forgotten, as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.

Darby Translation

I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

Young's Literal Translation

I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.

Bible in Basic English

I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

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Cross references

“forgotten”

Psalm 88:4 Psalm 88:5 Isaiah 38:11 Isaiah 38:12

Psalm 88:4 · BSB

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

Psalm 88:5 · BSB

I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

Isaiah 38:11 · BSB

I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

Isaiah 38:12 · BSB

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

“a broken vessel”

Psalm 2:9 Psalm 119:83 Isaiah 30:14 Revelation 2:27 Romans 9:21 Romans 9:22

Psalm 2:9 · BSB

You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery. ”

Psalm 119:83 · BSB

Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

Isaiah 30:14 · BSB

It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”

Revelation 2:27 · BSB

He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery —just as I have received authority from My Father.

Romans 9:21 · BSB

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

Romans 9:22 · BSB

What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Among 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.

13For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

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