“ I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a brokena vessel. ”
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, “as a dead man from the hear...
XXXI. Prayer in distress strangely intermingled with such confidence in God that the deliverance seems to be already accomplished. Psalms 31:1-3 a . Recurs with textual variants in Psalms 7...
am . became. broken: or missing.
12. I am forgotten as one dead. The Psalmist still pursues the same idea, and complains that he was as completely blotted out of all men’s remembrance as if he had been dead. The memory of s...
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 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 usele...
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. forgotten ... out of mind. So Deuteronomy 31:21 , "forgotten out of the months." As ... dead - ( Psalms 88:4-5 ; Ecc...
The writer of this Ps. gratefully records God's past deliverances ( Psalms 31:1-8 ), appeals to God for help against the enemies who assail him in the present ( Psalms 31:9-18 ), and ends with ferven...
Broken vessel. — A favourite image with Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 19:11 ; Jeremiah 22:28 ; Jeremiah 25:34 ; Jeremiah 48:38 ), but not peculiar to him among the prophets. (Comp. Hosea 8:8 , and see In...
Psalms 31:1-24 THE swift transitions of feeling in this psalm may seem strange to colder natures whose lives run smoothly, but reveal a brother-soul to those who have known what it is to ride on t...
a Cry out of Deep Trouble Psalms 31:1-13 Some have supposed that this psalm was written during the Sauline persecutions; but it is more likely that it dates from Absalom's rebellion. It alterna...
In this great song of trust struggling through tears to triumph, we have a fine example of an experience often repeated in the history of the children of faith. There are three divisions. In the firs...
If the Reader will mark the different expressions here, and turn to the scriptures concerning Christ, he will discover their plain and evident reference to Jesus. David was never so bitterly reproach...
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, Ecclesiaste...
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. Ver. 12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind ] How soon dead men are forgotten, even by those that promise to remember the...
I am forgotten , &c. Whatsoever good service I have done to the king or kingdom, or to any particular persons, which they have sometimes acknowledged and highly commended, is now quite forgotten...
Sorrowful Complaints; Humble and Believing Prayer. 9 Have mercy upon me, O L ORD , for I am in trouble: mine eye is con...
Whatsoever good service I have done to the king, or kingdom, or to any particular persons, neighbours, friends, or others, which sometimes they have acknowledged and highly commended, is now quite fo...
‘Because of all my adversaries I am become a reproach, Yes, to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to my acquaintance. Those who saw me out of doors fled from me. I am forgotten as a dead man o...
INTRODUCTION A psalm, in which the psalmist rises by prayer, from trouble, to lively faith and hope in God. The older interpreters founding on the use of the same word in Psalms 31:2-3 (Heb.), and...
Psalms 31:1 . In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; Can we say as much as that? However else this Psalm of David may end, it strikes a grand key-note, that which should be the first indication of o...
Psalms 31:5 . Into thine hand I commit my spirit, the words which our Saviour used on the cross, and the words which St. Stephen used the moment before his death, when addressing the Lord Jesus; a...
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble. The complaints of a sufferer, and the entreaties of a suppliant I. the complaints of a sufferer. 1. His sufferings were mental and severe....
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is, in the main, a cry for deliverance out of pressing danger and trouble; but it is interspersed with passages of a more cheerful tone, expressive of faith and confidenc...
The Believer's Humble and Confident Submission to the Hand of God. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical part of the Tabernacle worship, a psalm of David, written at some time w...
Isaiah 30:14 ; Isaiah 38:11 ; Isaiah 38:12 ; Psalms 119:83 ; Psalms 2:9 ; Psalms 88:4 ; Psalms 88:5 ; Revelation 2:27 ; Romans 9:21 ; Romans 9:22
A broken vessel — Which is irreparable, and useless, and therefore despised by all.