the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Psalms 31:12
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I am forgotten: gone from memorylike a dead person—like broken pottery.
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
I am like a piece of a broken pot. I am forgotten as if I were dead.
I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
I am forgotten like a dead person, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
I am forgotten, as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.
I am forgotten like a dead man—out of mind—I am like a broken vessel.
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
I am completely forgotten like someone dead. I am merely a broken dish.
I am scorned by all my adversaries, and even more by my neighbors; even to acquaintances I am an object of fear — when they see me in the street, they turn away from me.
I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
People want to forget me like someone already dead, thrown away like a broken dish.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like something given up for lost.
Everyone has forgotten me, as though I were dead; I am like something thrown away.
I have become forgotten like one dead, out of mind. I am like a destroyed vessel.
I am forgotten like one dead from the heart; I am like a perishing vessel.
My stregth fayleth me because of my aduersite, and my bones are corrupte.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, yea, unto my neighbours exceedingly, and a dread to mine acquaintance;
I am forgotten as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.
I became cleane forgotten as a dead man out of minde: I became like a broken vessell.
I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
as a deed man fro herte. I am maad as a lorun vessel;
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
I am ignored as if I were dead, as if I were a broken pot.
I am forgotten like a dead man and they do not think about me. I am like a broken pot.
I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
I have been forgotten, like one dead - out of mind, I have been as a missing vessel.
(30-13) I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.
I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.
I am forgotten as a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
forgotten: Psalms 88:4, Psalms 88:5, Isaiah 38:11, Isaiah 38:12
a broken vessel: Heb. a vessel that perisheth, Psalms 2:9, Psalms 119:83, Isaiah 30:14, Romans 9:21, Romans 9:22, Revelation 2:27
Reciprocal: Genesis 40:23 - but forgat him Psalms 88:12 - in the land Psalms 143:3 - made me Ecclesiastes 8:10 - they were Jeremiah 22:28 - a despised
Cross-References
Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
You search out my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind,.... Either by his friends, being out of sight, out of mind; as even the nearest relations and acquaintance are, in process of time, when dead, Ecclesiastes 9:5; or by the Lord; which shows the weakness of his faith, the uncomfortable frame he was in, through darkness and desertion; see Psalms 88:5;
I am like a broken vessel; or a "perishing vessel" c; or "a vessel of perdition" d: the Septuagint version renders it "a lost vessel" e; one entirely useless, wholly lost, and irrecoverably so; like a broken vessel, which can never be put together again, Isaiah 30:14; a most sad apprehension he had of himself, as if his case was desperate, and he a vessel of wrath; compare with this, Romans 9:22.
c ×××× ××× "sicut vas periens", Montanus, Cocceius, Gejerus. d So Ainsworth. e V. L. Pagninus, Musculus, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind - Like the man who is dead, and who has passed away from the recollection of mankind. Compare Psalms 88:4-5. The Hebrew is, âas a dead man from the heart;â that is, from the memory or recollection of men, so as to be no more remembered; no more regarded. The expression is nearly the same in meaning as our common English proverb: âout of sight, out of mind.â The allusion is to the fact that a man who is dead is soon forgotten. He is missed at first by a few friends, while the rest of the world knows little about him, or cares little for him. He is no longer seen where he has been accustomed to be seen, at the place of business, in the social circle, in the scenes of amusement, in the streets, or in public assemblies. For a short period a vacancy is created which attracts attention and causes regret. But the world moves on. Another comes to fill his place, and soon his absence ceases to be a subject of remark, or a cause of regret; the world says little about him, and soon he altogether ceases to be remembered. At no distant time the rude board with his name written on it, or the marble sculptured with all the skill of art, falls down. The passing traveler casts an eye upon the ânameâ of him who slept his last sleep there, and neither knows nor cares who he was.
âThe gay will laugh
When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care
Plod on, and each one as before will chase
His favorite phantomâ
- Bryant
âOn my grassy grave
The men of future times will careless tread,
And read my name upon the sculptured stone;
Nor will the sound, familiar to their ears,
Recall my vanishâd memory.â
- Henry Kirke White
It is sad to reflect that this is to be our lot; but so it is. It would cast a most gloomy shade over life if this was to be the end of man, and if he passed from existence as soon as he passes from the recollection of the living. The idea of the psalmist here is, that, in the circumstances to which he referred, he had been forgotten by mankind, and he uses the most striking image which could be employed to convey that idea.
I am like a broken vessel - Margin, as in Hebrew, âlike a vessel that perisheth.â That is, like a vessel made of clay - a piece of pottery - that is easily broken and rendered worthless. This is a favorite comparison with Jeremiah. See Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 48:38; Lamentations 4:2. Compare also Psalms 2:9; Isaiah 30:14; Hosea 8:8.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 31:12. 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.
