Psalms 31:12
I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.
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- Isa 30:14 : 14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”
- Ps 88:4-5 : 4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man, 5 adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.
- Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am like a wineskin dried up in smoke. I do not forget your statutes.
- Ps 2:9 : 9 You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
- Isa 38:11-12 : 11 “I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. 12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
- Rom 9:21-22 : 21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? 22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
- Rev 2:27 : 27 he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,
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- Ps 31:10-112 verses83%
10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.
11Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.
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13For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.
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14My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.
15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
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3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.
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13Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.
14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.
15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.
- Ps 88:4-52 verses75%
4They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,
5adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.
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17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
18So I said,“My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the LORD.”
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83For I am like a wineskin dried up in smoke. I do not forget your statutes.
- Ps 102:3-53 verses74%
3For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.
4My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.
5Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.
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11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
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22I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.
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19Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying,“Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”
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19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
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6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.
7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
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12I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
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6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
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11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
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11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
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6But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.
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8You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.
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10He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree.
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13But I am like a deaf man– I hear nothing; I am like a mute who cannot speak.
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1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
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10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!
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16Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.
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8I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
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12My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
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10I hear many whispering words of intrigue against me. Those who would cause me terror are everywhere! They are saying,“Come on, let’s publicly denounce him!” All my so-called friends are just watching for something that would lead to my downfall. They say,“Perhaps he can be enticed into slipping up, so we can prevail over him and get our revenge on him.
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22For I am oppressed and needy, and my heart beats violently within me.
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19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
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4I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!
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4ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.
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6I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.
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53They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.
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20Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.
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10My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”
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1For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?
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14I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.
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141I am insignificant and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts.
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9Job’s Indignities“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.