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Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

Psalms 31:12

In 11 translations

BSB
I am forgotten like 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.a broken…: Heb. a vessel that perisheth
WEB
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
ASV
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
LSV
I have been forgotten as dead, out of mind, || I have been as a perishing vessel.
YLT
I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.
DBY
I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
DRC30:13
I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.
GNV
I am forgotten, as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.
JPS31:13
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a useless vessel.
LXXE30:13
I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC31:13
נִ֭שְׁכַּחְתִּי כְּמֵ֣ת מִלֵּ֑ב הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כִּכְלִ֥י אֹבֵֽד׃KJV:Ps.31.12
LXX-Br30:13
Ἐπελήσθην ὡσεὶ νεκρὸς ἀπὸ καρδίας· ἐγενήθην ὡσεὶ σκεῦος ἀπολωλὸς,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 88:4–5I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
  • Psalms 119:83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
  • Psalms 2:9You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
  • Isaiah 30:14It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
  • Romans 9:21–22Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great…
  • Isaiah 38:11–12I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world. My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a…
  • Revelation 2:27He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery —just as I have received authority from My Father.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 31:13 in some Bibles
  • 31:12 in most Bibles

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