Psalms 31:12 · KJV
“I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. {a broken...: Heb. a vessel that perisheth}”
— Psalms 31:12
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.
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.
Psalms 31 — Context
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11I 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.
12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. {a broken...: Heb. a vessel that perisheth}
13For 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.
14But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou {art} my God.
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:
Psalms 2:9
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Isaiah 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. {the potters'...: Heb. the bottle of potters}
Romans 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?
Psalms 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; {yet} do I not forget thy statutes.
Isaiah 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.
Revelation 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.