A moment in scripture
Psalms 31:12
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I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 31:10
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
- Psalms 31:11
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
- Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
- Psalms 31:14
But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.