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Psalms 31:12

I am forgotten as 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.

ASV

מִ/כָּל צֹרְרַ֨/י הָיִ֪יתִי חֶרְפָּ֡ה וְ/לִ/שֲׁכֵנַ֨/י מְאֹד֮ וּ/פַ֪חַד לִֽ/מְיֻדָּ֫עָ֥/י רֹאַ֥/י בַּ/ח֑וּץ נָדְד֥וּ מִמֶּֽ/נִּי

Hebrew

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

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ה
h
noun · 164×
חֶרְפַּ֥ת
chrpt
noun · 70×
י
y
verb · 53×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מְאֹֽד
m'd
noun · 297×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
נָדְדָ֖ה
nddh
verb · 28×
נוּ
nv
adjective · 21×
פַּ֣חַד
pchd
noun · 49×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Gen 40:23 — Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
  • Isa 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,
  • Jer 22:28 — Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
  • Ps 2:9 — Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
  • Ps 88:4 — I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
  • Ps 88:4 — I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
  • Ps 119:83 — For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
  • Ps 143:3 — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
  • Rom 9:21 — Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?