Psalms 31 · Verse 12

Psalms 31:12

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Psalms 31:12, King James Version

Psalms 31:12 in other translations

BSBI am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
WEBI am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
ASVI am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
YLTI have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.
DARBYI am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
BBEI have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
WebsterI am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

What does Psalms 31:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. he is forgotten as one dead, and contemned as a useless broken vessel.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 I 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 31:9-18

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…

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Psalms 31:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

נִ֭שְׁכַּחְתִּיNish.kach.tiI have been forgottenH7911
כְּמֵ֣תke.Metlike a dead [person]H4191
מִלֵּ֑בmi.Levfrom [the] heartH3820
הָ֝יִ֗יתִיha.Yi.tiI have becomeH1961
כִּכְלִ֥יkikh.Lilike a vesselH3627
אֹבֵֽד\׃'o.Ved[which] is destroyedH6

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Cross references for Psalms 31:12

  • Psalms 88:4-5

    I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

  • Psalms 119:83

    For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

  • 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? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

  • 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.

  • Psalms 2:9

    Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

  • 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. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
forgotten.
88:4,5; Isa 38:11,12
a broken vessel. Heb. a vessel that perisheth.
2:9; 119:83; Isa 30:14; Ro 9:21,22; Re 2:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 31:11

    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.

  • Psalms 31:12

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

  • Psalms 31:13

    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.

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Psalms 31:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		He sido olvidado de su corazón como un muerto: he venido á ser como un vaso perdido.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Plus qu’à tous mes ennemis, je suis un opprobre aussi à mes voisins, même extrêmement, et une frayeur à ceux de ma connaissance; ceux qui me voient dehors s’enfuient de moi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Meiner ist im Herzen vergessen wie eines Gestorbenen; ich bin geworden wie ein zertrümmertes Gefäß.