Psalms 31:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 30:14 : 14 And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.
  • Ps 88:4-5 : 4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
  • Ps 2:9 : 9 They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.
  • Isa 38:11-12 : 11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world. 12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
  • Rom 9:21-22 : 21 Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame? 22 What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:
  • Rev 2:27 : 27 And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 31:10-11
    2 verses
    83%

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

    11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

  • 13 False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    77%

    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Job 19:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

    14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

    15 I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

  • Ps 88:4-5
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    75%

    4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

    5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

  • Lam 3:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

    18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

  • 83 For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.

  • Ps 102:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.

    4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • 22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • 19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

  • 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Job 17:6-7
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    73%

    6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

    7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • 12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

  • 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • 11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

  • 6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

  • 8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

  • 10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

  • 13 But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • 10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • 16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

  • 8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

  • 12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

  • 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

  • 22 For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

  • 19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

  • 4 For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

  • 4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • 6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

  • 53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

  • 20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

  • 10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

  • 14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

  • 141 I am small and of no account; but I keep your orders in mind.

  • 9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.